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How would I get the "name" attribute from the manifest.xsf file using C#?

Example: name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08"

I want to retrieve "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08"

 More specifically, the node that I need to retrieve an attribute from is

<xsf:xDocumentClass solutionFormatVersion="2.0.0.0" solutionVersion="1.0.0.575" productVersion="12.0.0" requireFullTrust="yes" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08" xmlns:xsf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/solutionDefinition" xmlns:xsf2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/solutionDefinition/extensions" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:xd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xdUtil="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Util" xmlns:xdXDocument="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/xDocument" xmlns:xdMath="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Math" xmlns:xdDate="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Date" xmlns:xdExtension="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/extension" xmlns:xdEnvironment="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/xslt/environment" xmlns:xdUser="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/xslt/User" xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-06-30T14:56:08" xmlns:dfs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/dataFormSolution" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/ado/dataFields" xmlns:tns="http://rjbtech.com/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

In the 2007 C# object model, this.Template.Manifest is a reference to an XPathNavigator for the manifest.  You can use this like:

            XPathNavigator name = this.Template.Manifest.SelectSingleNode("@name", NamespaceManager);

to get the name attribute.  I believe there will be no name attribute if the form is unpublished so this will not work in preview mode.

Thanks Jimmy but I am trying to modify manifest.xsf from a SharePoint Feature receiver rather than InfoPath code behind. How would I go about modifying the xml file in a more generic way?

It may be round-about but my process is this:

1.  Activate Feature 
2. Code will extract files from xsn/cab file 12\template\features\customform\customform.xsn
3. need to modify name="urn..." attribute on nodes in manifest.xsf and template.xml
4. save files
5. repackage into xsn file

Step 3 is the only part that I am having trouble with.

Thank you

 Yes, that's pretty much the best that can be done.  For the middle step, you can write a .NET tool to:

• Open up the manifest.xsf and template.xml files using the XmlDocument class.
• Make the necessary modifications using the XmlDocument object's access methods.
• Re-save the files using the Save() method.
  

Middle step seems like it should be easy but that's what I'm having a hard time with

How do I change the name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08" attribute for the below xml node?

<xsf:xDocumentClass solutionFormatVersion="2.0.0.0" solutionVersion="1.0.0.575" productVersion="12.0.0" requireFullTrust="yes" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08" xmlns:xsf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/solutionDefinition" xmlns:xsf2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/solutionDefinition/extensions" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:xd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xdUtil="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Util" xmlns:xdXDocument="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/xDocument" xmlns:xdMath="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Math" xmlns:xdDate="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Date" xmlns:xdExtension="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/extension" xmlns:xdEnvironment="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/xslt/environment" xmlns:xdUser="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2006/xslt/User" xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-06-30T14:56:08" xmlns:dfs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/dataFormSolution" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/ado/dataFields" xmlns:tns="http://rjbtech.com/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

 Do you have any experience working with the XmlDocument/XmlNode classes?  Can you show us the code you have so far so I can fill you in on the necessary missing steps?

Below is what I have so far. I want to replace "FormName" in the xsf:xDocumentClass name="..." attribute with "Prefix-FormName", write it to manifest.xsf and save it.

                XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
                XmlTextReader xmlReader = new XmlTextReader(@"C:\manifest.xsf");
                while (xmlReader.Read())
                {
                    if (xmlReader.NodeType.Equals(XmlNodeType.Element) && xmlReader.Name.Equals("xsf:xDocumentClass"))
                    {
                        while (xmlReader.MoveToNextAttribute())
                        {
                            if(xmlReader.Value.Contains("FormName"))
                            {
                                string urnAttribute = xmlReader.Value;
                                urnAttribute.Replace("FormName", "Prefix-FormName");
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

 This should be all you need:

            XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
            xmlDoc.Load(@"C:\manifest.xsf");

            XmlAttribute nameAttr = xmlDoc.DocumentElement.Attributes["name"];
            if (nameAttr != null && nameAttr.Value.Contains("FormName")  &&
                !nameAttr.Value.Contains("Prefix-FormName"))
            {
                nameAttr.Value = nameAttr.Value.Replace("FormName", "Prefix-FormName");
            }

            xmlDoc.Save(@"C:\manifest.xsf");
 

This works great, thanks Jimmy.

Now this is interesting... when I try the same method against template.xml in order to replace the name attribute value in 

<?mso-infoPathSolution name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:FormName:-myXSD-2008-06-30T14-56-08" solutionVersion="1.0.0.575" productVersion="12.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" ?>

it is not able to find the attribute. The XmlDocument class must not be recognizing these as DocumentElements and I don't see any member of XmlDocument that would let me get at the name attribute in a <? ?> node. Is there a way?

 That's because they're not DocumentElements; they're processing instructions.  To get at a processing instruction, you'll need to do something like this:

            XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
            xmlDoc.Load(@"C:\template.xml");

            XmlProcessingInstruction ipPi = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("processing-instruction()[local-name() = 'mso-infoPathSolution']")
                as XmlProcessingInstruction;
            if (ipPi != null && ipPi.Value.Contains("CertFormPub")  &&
                !ipPi.Value.Contains("Prefix-FormName"))
            {
                ipPi.Value = ipPi.Value.Replace("CertFormPub", "Prefix-FormName");
            }

            xmlDoc.Save(@"C:\template.xml");

  There's no easy way to get at the attributes inside a processing instruction, so you're probably best off doing the string processing on the whole PI value.

Wow, this is perfect. I owe you a drink when I visit Japan!

 Any one down this path remember to use "XMLDocument.PreserveWhitespace = True". gave me night mares, until I used this before modifying the manifest.xsf file.

When PreserveWhitespace is not set, the manifest file is saved in this format:

<xsf:property name="namespace" type="string" value="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-07-29T15:31:35">
</xsf:property>

and I have errors because there are spaces within the opening and closing tags. It should look like:

<xsf:property name="namespace" type="string" value="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-07-29T15:31:35"></xsf:property>

But when I set PreserveWhitespace to true, the manifest file's xml is compressed into one line like:

<xsf:fileProperties><xsf:property name="namespace" type="string" value="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-07-29T15:31:35"></xsf:property><xsf:property name="editability" type="string" value="full"></xsf:property><xsf:property name="rootElement" type="string" value="myFields"></xsf:property>

 This is causing errors as well.

 Is there any middle ground?

 What method are you using to do the changes. I am using this

                nameSpaceManager.AddNamespace("xsf", gXsfNamespace2003);
                nameSpaceManager.AddNamespace("xsf2", gXsfNamespace2007);

                XPathNavigator nodePathToModify = manifestXML.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode(PathToModify, nameSpaceManager);
                nodePathToModify.SetValue(ValueInxPath);

hope this helps...Because in some of trials, I was getting the same result as it is doing with your xsf file.