programatically remove namespace from XmlDocument

[Gabe Moothart]

Hi,
I'm writing a program that loads an xml document, modifies it, validates
it with an xsd schema, then send it on to another application for
processing. I have no control over this aplication.

The problem is this: for some reason, this application rejects any xml
documents with a namespace (as crazy as that sounds). So I need to strip
the xmlns="www.MyNamespace.com" attribute from the document before
passing it on.

This seems like it should be an easy thing to do... but I can't figure
out how to do it. I've tried

MyXml.DocumentElement.Attributes.RemoveAll();

and even

MyXml.LoadXml("<RootNode>" + OrderXml.DocumentElement.InnerXml +
"</RootNode>");

but neither of those work. RemoveAll() has no effect on the xmlns
attribute, and re-loading the xml with a new root node only moves the
xmlns attribute down to the next child of RootNode.

Any ideas?

thanks,
Gabe

[Victor Hadianto]

If only the attribute that you want to get rid off, maybe using regular
expression is quick and dirty way to do it. Even if you need to remove the
prefix you still can use Regex. This regex should help you match the
attributes:

<.*?(xmlns="www.MyNamespace.com").*?>

--
Victor Hadianto
http://synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

"Gabe Moothart" <ga**@imaginesystems.net> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm writing a program that loads an xml document, modifies it, validates
it with an xsd schema, then send it on to another application for
processing. I have no control over this aplication.

The problem is this: for some reason, this application rejects any xml
documents with a namespace (as crazy as that sounds). So I need to strip
the xmlns="www.MyNamespace.com" attribute from the document before passing
it on.

This seems like it should be an easy thing to do... but I can't figure out
how to do it. I've tried

MyXml.DocumentElement.Attributes.RemoveAll();

and even

MyXml.LoadXml("<RootNode>" + OrderXml.DocumentElement.InnerXml +
"</RootNode>");

but neither of those work. RemoveAll() has no effect on the xmlns
attribute, and re-loading the xml with a new root node only moves the
xmlns attribute down to the next child of RootNode.

Any ideas?

thanks,
Gabe

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Gabe Moothart wrote:

The problem is this: for some reason, this application rejects any xml
documents with a namespace (as crazy as that sounds). So I need to strip
the xmlns="www.MyNamespace.com" attribute from the document before
passing it on.

You can't remove namespace for XmlDocument in-memory. Namespace is
integral part of name, so you have to recreate any element, which is in
the namespace.
Alternatively strip namespaces while writing XmlDocument out using some
custom XmlWriter, e.g. take a look at
http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archiv...02/206432.aspx

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com