how to remove the xmlns attribute that gets added by the xmldocument

Question

Hi experts ,

i have a scenario, where i have to read the xml document and create/add an xmlnode to the document.

newElem = xmlDocument.CreateNode("element", "newnode", ""); //creates the node
newElem.InnerText ="test" ;
nodeList[0].AppendChild(newElem); //appends the node
string data = xmlDocument.OuterXml; //while assiging the xmldocument to a string variable , its adding attribute xmlns="" to the newnode added

output:
<newnode xmlns="">test<newnode>

how we can remove the attribute xmlns="" that got added by the xml document?

Note : i have newElem.Attributes.RemoveNamedItem("xmlns="); tried this, this was not helpfull

Answer 1

Try this:

 newElem = xmlDocument.CreateNode( XmlNodeType.Element, "newnode", nodeList[0].NamespaceURI );

Or show enough details to reproduce the problem.

Answer 2

Hi There,

Thank you for asking this question on the Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Please check the similar question asked on stackoverflow and this might be helpful for you,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24305747/how-to-remove-xmlns-attribute-of-a-node-other-than-root-in-an-xdocument

Regards,
Kamlesh Kumar
BizTalk Techie

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