I'm pretty sure this is not possible, but I thought I'd ask the experts to make sure.

I'm working with a large, very deep set of XML data, and mostly my perl script needs to read in the XML - parse the data, do a few modifications/alterations/aggregations, then dump to a DB.

The source XML has a xmls tag defined in the root, which is completely irrelevant to what I am doing with it. As we all know, LibXML becomes a serious pain to work with when namespaces are defined like this, and since I am traveling to 8 or 9 levels of child nodes multiple times, and doing operations on each, I fear for my sanity having to redefine and declare the XPathContext.

So my question is simple, is there any way (barring a sed on the source to remove it before parsing..) to remove namespace from the LibXML parsed object? There seem to be plenty of ways to define new ones, and I haven't seen a definitive answer yet anywhere on this one.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

In reply to LibXML - Removing Namespace? by Anonymous Monk

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