XNamespace.Implicit(String to XNamespace) Operator

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.Linq

Assembly:

System.Xml.XDocument.dll

Source:

XNamespace.cs

Important

This API is not CLS-compliant.

Converts a string containing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to an XNamespace.

public:
 static operator System::Xml::Linq::XNamespace ^(System::String ^ namespaceName);

[System.CLSCompliant(false)]
public static implicit operator System.Xml.Linq.XNamespace? (string? namespaceName);

[<System.CLSCompliant(false)>]
static member op_Implicit : string -> System.Xml.Linq.XNamespace

Public Shared Widening Operator CType (namespaceName As String) As XNamespace

Parameters

namespaceName

String

A String that contains the namespace URI.

Returns

XNamespace

An XNamespace constructed from the URI string.

Attributes

CLSCompliantAttribute

Examples

The following example shows the initialization of an XNamespace variable by assigning a string to it.

XNamespace aw = "http://www.adventure-works.com";
Console.WriteLine(aw);

Imports <xmlns="http://www.adventure-works.com">

Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        Dim aw As XNamespace = GetXmlNamespace()
        Console.WriteLine(aw)
    End Sub
End Module

This example produces the following output:

http://www.adventure-works.com

See also

• LINQ to XML overview