removing xmlns form xml vb.net

[Jack Colletta]

Hello,

If I have a xml document with a rootlevel

<workOrderReleased xmlns="http://www.qad.com/qdoc"
xmlns:enc="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/soap-encoding"
xmlns:qcom="http://www.qad.com/qdoc/common"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="workOrderReleasedWithComments-JITS17_1.xsd">

When I use the following vb.net code to remove the xlmns attributes they all
remove but the first one. I need to remove them all.

objXMLDoc.Load(fileString)

Dim objAttrib As XmlAttributeCollection =
objXMLDoc.DocumentElement.Attributes

objAttrib.RemoveAll()

Thank you for the help

[Martin Honnen]

Jack Colletta wrote:

If I have a xml document with a rootlevel

<workOrderReleased xmlns="http://www.qad.com/qdoc" When I use the following vb.net code to remove the xlmns attributes they all
remove but the first one. I need to remove them all. Dim objAttrib As XmlAttributeCollection =
objXMLDoc.DocumentElement.Attributes

objAttrib.RemoveAll()

In the DOM as specified by the W3C and as implemented in .NET you cannot
simply change the namespace of a node, you would need to create a new
node with the same local name but with no namespace.
And of course with the above XML not only the root element but all
elements below it have the same default namespace (unless a descendant
has its own xmlns="") so using the DOM you would have to create a lot of
new nodes.
It might be easier to write an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to do that task.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/