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tannerd
tannerd

Reputation: 13

Remove all the namespaces from under the root node

I am using System.Xml.Serialization to serialize a class into an xdocument.

<tns:RatingRequest xmlns:tns="http://somewebsite/services/rating" 
xmlns:tns1="http://somewebsite/services/rating" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://somewebsite/services/rating.xsd ">
   <tns:Configuration>
      <tns:Client>
         <tns:TradingPartnerNum>101010</tns:TradingPartnerNum>
      </tns:Client>
   </tns:Configuration>
   <tns:PickupDate>2017-12-12T00:00:00</tns:PickupDate>
   <tns:LatestDeliveryDate>0001-01-01T00:00:00</tns:LatestDeliveryDate>
   <tns:Stops>
      <tns:Index>1</tns:Index>
   </tns:Stops>
</tns:RatingRequest>

What I need is only the first node having the tns: namespace like

<tns:RatingRequest xmlns:tns="http://somewebsite/services/rating" 
xmlns:tns1="http://somewebsite/services/rating" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://somewebsite/services/rating.xsd ">
   <Configuration>
      <TradingPartner>
        <TradingPartnerNum>101010</TradingPartnerNum>
      </TradingPartner>
   </Configuration>
   <PickupDate>2017-10-27T00:00:00-05:00</PickupDate>
   <DeliveryDate>-05:00</DeliveryDate>
   <Stops>
     <Stop>
       <Index>1</Index>
     </stop>
   </stops>
</tns:RatingRequest>

Is there a clean way of doing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 255

Answers (1)

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1063884

The trick here is that in the xml you want, the namespace of the child elements is the empty namespace. Your root element is in the "http://somewebsite/services/rating", and by default the namespace is inherited; so: you need to include Namespace = "" on whatever xml serializer attributes you are using for the child elements. For example, if you have:

[XmlElement("PickupDate")]
public DateTime SomeDate {get;set;}

then it might become:

[XmlElement("PickupDate", Namespace = "")]
public DateTime SomeDate {get;set;}

You will need to repeat that for the other elements.

Upvotes: 3

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