Remove q1 and all namespaces from xml

Question

I\'m given a xsd generated C# POCO object that I need to convert to xml. The expected payload however doesn\'t match the xsds I was given. Specifically, I need to omit the

Answer 1

The simplest way is to 'post-process' the XML:

var doc = XDocument.Parse(xml);

doc.Descendants().Attributes().Where(a => a.IsNamespaceDeclaration).Remove();

foreach (var element in doc.Descendants())
{
    element.Name = element.Name.LocalName;
}

var xmlWithoutNamespaces = doc.ToString();

The other option (as you can't amend the source class XML attributes) is to implement a decorator for XmlWriter that ignores all namespaces, but it's quite a large class so there'd be a lot of boilerplate delegation.