Dear monks,

does anyone know how to simply solve following annoyance (not a real problem)?

Building DOM by XML::LibXML I create new elements via createElementNS method of XML document. When such document is serialized, every element contains the namespace declaration. Due to this declarations, the document is not very readable and occupies too much space on my screen.

Is there a way how to get rid of these declarations in resulting document and left only those "necessary" (in document element).

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::LibXML;

my $ns = 'http://www.example.com';

my $doc =  XML::LibXML::Document->new;
$doc->setDocumentElement($doc->createElementNS($ns, 'q:one'));
$doc->documentElement->appendChild($doc->createElementNS($ns, 'q:two')
+);
$doc->documentElement->appendChild($doc->createElementNS($ns, 'q:three
+'));
warn $doc->toString(1);

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The result is 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<q:one xmlns:q="http://www.example.com">
  <q:two xmlns:q="http://www.example.com"/>
  <q:three xmlns:q="http://www.example.com"/>
</q:one>

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Thanks for any advice

Roman

In reply to XML::LibXML and too many namespace declarations by roman

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