[XOM-interest] Removing namespace declarations

[Peter Murray-Rust]

I have been processing XOM using XInclude and have somehow ended up with
XInclude namespace declarations on nodes, as in:

<module xmlns="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema" xmlns:xi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
...
</module>

I'd like to get rid of them, ideally with XPath, but my reading of XOM
suggests that I cannot obtain namespace declarations with XPath. If I can't
do it this way is there a programmatic way of getting rid of them?

P.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

Post by Peter Murray-Rust
I have been processing XOM using XInclude and have somehow ended up with
<module xmlns="http://www.xml-cml.org/schema" xmlns:xi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
?...
</module>

Looks like your XInclude picked up some namespaces in scope.

Post by Peter Murray-Rust
I'd like to get rid of them, ideally with XPath, but my reading of XOM
suggests that I cannot obtain namespace declarations with XPath. If I can't
do it this way is there a programmatic way of getting rid of them?

Should be. Assuming the namespace isn't actually used, then just call
element.removeNamespaceDeclaration("xi")