Xelement.Element(string) always returning null

I have an Xelement which looks like: 

<headers batchid="123456" xmlns="http://api.temp.com/ns/">
  <header uri="https://api.temp.com/v1.0/headers/147852" id="147852" /> 
  </headers>

I'm trying to read the "uri" attribute. When I tried :

var temp = xmlResponse.Attribute("uri");

it kept return me null.

So I tried:

var temp = xmlResponse.Element("header");
var temp2 = xmlResponse.Element("headers");

and they are also returning null.

What am I doing wrong?

Jon Skeet
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You're ignoring the namespace of the element. Due to the xmlns="...", both the headers and header elements are in a namespace of "http://api.temp.com/ns/". Fortunately, LINQ to XML makes this really easy to fix:

XNamespace ns = "http://api.temp.com/ns/";
var temp = xmlResponse.Element(ns + "headers");
var temp2 = temp.Element(ns + "header");

(Note that the header element is nested within the headers element, hence why I'm calling temp.Element to get at it.)

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