How to remove all namespaces from XML with C#?

Question

I am looking for the clean, elegant and smart solution to remove namespacees from all XML elements? How would function to do that look like?

Defined interface:

Answer 1

Here's are Regex Replace one liner:

public static string RemoveNamespaces(this string xml)
{
    return Regex.Replace(xml, "((?<=<|<\\/)|(?<= ))[A-Za-z0-9]+:| xmlns(:[A-Za-z0-9]+)?=\".*?\"", "");
}

Here's a sample: https://regex101.com/r/fopydN/6

Warning:there might be edge cases!