i am receiving following xml from one party:


#1
<Request xmlns="http://somens.com">
<SomeElement1>Element data</SomeElement1>
<SomeElement1>Another element data</SomeElement1>
</Request>

and before processing want to add prefix to the root element so the
document should be:

#2
<ns0:Request xmlns:ns0="http://somens.com">
<SomeElement1>Element data</SomeElement1>
<SomeElement1>Another element data</SomeElement1>
</ns0:Request>

trying to add prefix to DocumentElement results in addition another
xmlns with prefix instead of adding prefix to already existent xmlns,
after specifying prefix xml looks like this

#3
<ns0:Request xmlns="http://somens.com" xmlns:ns0="http://somens.com">>
<SomeElement1>Element data</SomeElement1>
<SomeElement1>Another element data</SomeElement1>
</ns0:Request>

Is there any way to overcome that behaviour and get xml #2?

Thanks in advance,
Sasha

sashaxp wrote:
So you are renaming the root element and the child elements as the
default namespace is missing and that way the child elements are now in
no namespace.

Such tasks are solvable with an XSLT stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns0="http://somens.com"
version="1.0">

<xslutput method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="/ns0:Request">
<ns0:Request>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ns0:Request>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*/*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}" namespace="">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You can apply XSLT tranformations using
System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform in .NET 2.0 and later and using
System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform in .NET 1.x.

Doing that with the DOM is rather tedious as you would need to recreate
each element with the proper prefix and namespace.


--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

On 23 ÄÅË, 15:58, Martin Honnen <mahotr... (AT) yahoo (DOT) de> wrote:
Thanks Martin,
Works fine