Remove xmlns from XML doc (C#) for use of X-Path

That's right!!!

I was using X-Path to read the nodes from an XML doc, but when I try doing it, it was always wrong.

Why? Because Microsoft Core XML, even the most recent one (you can see it here), only implements the X-Path 1.0 (since 1999).

And this X-Path version does not support the default namespace.

To overpass this problem, you can do 3 things:

• Add the namespace to the XmlDocument and then use X-Path
• Remove the namespace from the XmlDocument and then use X-Path
• Use third dll's that implement newer versions of X-Path

There's some of solutions all over internet, but I prefer an generic solution, like removing all namespaces.

You can do it directly on XmlDocument or use regular expressions.

Personally, I like the regular expressions solution. Here it is:



This way you have an generic solution for all xml document and you can use X-Path with no worries.


Special Thanks to Pedro Lamas giving references and orientation.


References:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/CSharp/XML/Removeallthexmlnamespacesxmlnsattributesinthexmlstring.htm
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987135/how-to-remove-all-namespaces-from-xml-with-c
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/2/10021509/problem-with-xpath.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3988