Remove xml namespaces from WCF restful response

Question

I am using WCF to return a plain old XML (POX) document to the caller. I am using the XML Serializer formatter to turn the objects into XML.

In the returned docum

Answer 1

You can remove the XML namespace by setting the Namespace parameter of the DataContract attribute to an empty string, like so:

[DataContract(Namespace = "")]
public class ResponseInfo
{
    // ...
}

I hope this helps...

Answer 2

I have the same problem when I work with ASMX clients and For me this solve the problem :

Add to your Service Interface :

[XmlSerializerFormat(Use = OperationFormatUse.Literal, Style = OperationFormatStyle.Document)]

Add to Operations :

[OperationContract(Action = "http://www.YourNameSpace.com/ActionName",ReplyAction = "http://www.YourNameSpace.com/ActionName")]

Answer 3

Not sure if this will help, but we had a similar issue. Instead of decorating thousands of data elements with DataContract/DataMember attributes and using the (default) DataContractSerializer, we found that if our WCF service used the XmlSerializerFormat instead, we could easily deserialize our objects.

[System.ServiceModel.ServiceContract]
public interface IRestService
{
    [System.ServiceModel.OperationContract]
    // Added this attribute to use XmlSerializer instead of DataContractSerializer
    [System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormat(
        Style=System.ServiceModel.OperationFormatStyle.Document)]
    [System.ServiceModel.Web.WebGet(
        ResponseFormat = System.ServiceModel.Web.WebMessageFormat.Xml,
        UriTemplate = "xml/objects/{myObjectIdentifier}")]
    MyObject GetMyObject(int myObjectIdentifier);
}

This is how we're deserializing the objects:

public static T DeserializeTypedObjectFromXmlString<T>(string input)
{
    T result;

    try
    {
        System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xs = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        using (System.IO.TextReader textReader = new System.IO.StringReader(input))
        {
            result = (T)xs.Deserialize(textReader);
        }
    }
    catch
    {
        throw;
    }

    return result;
}