Namespace Prefixes

[Anirudh]

Hi,
i have a SOAP XML which is similar to this:

<request xmlns="http://www.someurl.com">
<abc>
<xyz></xyz>
<xyz></xyz>
</abc>

I need the same namespace for 'request' and 'abc' but i want to
maintain the default namespace for 'xyz'. i.e, i want the xml to look
something like this:

<prefix:request xmlns:prefix="http://www.someurl.com">
<prefix:abc>
<xyz></xyz> // These do NOT come under 'prefix'.
<xyz></xyz> // They are xmlns = "".
</prefix:abc>

Is there any way i can achieve this? What do i need to specify in the
attribute tags? Thanks in advance.

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Anirudh wrote:

Hi,
i have a SOAP XML which is similar to this:

<request xmlns="http://www.someurl.com">
<abc>
<xyz></xyz>
<xyz></xyz>
</abc>

I need the same namespace for 'request' and 'abc' but i want to
maintain the default namespace for 'xyz'. i.e, i want the xml to look
something like this:

<prefix:request xmlns:prefix="http://www.someurl.com">
<prefix:abc>
<xyz></xyz> // These do NOT come under 'prefix'.
<xyz></xyz> // They are xmlns = "".
</prefix:abc>

Is there any way i can achieve this? What do i need to specify in the
attribute tags? Thanks in advance.

IN you original XML xyz elements are in "http://www.someurl.com"
namespace and in the target XML they are in no namespace.
XML namespace is an intergral part of an element name, so changing
namespace means renaming element and the only way to rename element is
to recreate it.
This can be done in a variety of ways - XSLT, custom XmlReader,
XmlDocument etc, whatever is more approprite/familiar to you.

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

[Anirudh]

Thanks so much for the help, Oleg. Will try out the options you have
specified. God bless :)