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> Remember that the namespace is part of the element and attribute name. > Therefore, what you are really asking is, "How can I rename all elements > and attributes?" It's not clear to me how removing "xmlns" attributes would have anything at all to do with renaming. DOM binds namespace URIs "early" ... which means that the name isn't going to change no matter what any "xmlns" attributes say. Move a DOM node to some other part of the tree, and the namespace URI doesn't change even if the prefix used in its node name is bound to a different URI. Or did someone change DOM to be "late binding" when I wasn't looking? I seem to recall DOM adopted that policy because otherwise (X)HTML nodes and such would need to dynamically change types (adding lots of convenience methods, or dropping them), which was perceived to be not a good idea. If there's anything in the DOM spec that says "xmlns" attributes should get special treatment, I surely don't remember it. Seems like some DOM implementation has a conformance bug. - Dave
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