Stripping namespaces using XSLT

Ramkumar Menon
Director, Product Strategy

A common question often asked is "I have a namespace qualified XML document -
I need to remove all xmlns attributes from the same".

Here is an XSLT that you can use to strip all namespaces from your document.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl">
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@* | text()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Comments ( 3 )

Hany Harraz Monday, August 25, 2008

what if I want to change a namspace
lets say that what I have is
< soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:q0="http://address" >
< soapenv:Body>
< q0:findByLocation>
< city/>
< state>NC< /state>
< /q0:findByLocation>
< /soapenv:Body>
< /soapenv:Envelope>
and I want to change namespace q0 to be "http://east.address"
then how do i do that?
n gunaran Thursday, January 15, 2009

hany harraz,
I'm looking for a solution for a similar problem did you find a solution if so please share it.
best cash isas Friday, April 29, 2011

Thanks so much for sharing all of the awesome info! I am looking forward to checking out more posts!