Allow special characters in Xelement.SetAttributeValue

Question

I want to use special characters in the name of the attribute like ":" how can i do that?

.SetAttributeValue("xmlns:xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");

when i try it says that ":" is not allowed as a attribute name

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

el.SetAttributeValue(XNamespace.Xmlns + "xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");

Alternative syntax:

el.SetAttributeValue(XNamespace.Xmlns.GetName("xsi"), "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");