How to remove namespace from root XML element?

Question

There is an easy way to remove the namespace from the root XML element. I tried with

[XmlRootAttribute("MCP", Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)] 

for a serializable class. But to no avail. still getting the same result.

sample class

 [Serializable] [XmlRootAttribute("MCP", Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)] public class BINDRequest { public BINDRequest() { } [XmlAttribute] public string CLIENT_REQUEST_ID { get; set; } public BINDRequestBody BIND { get; set; } } 

xml result

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <MCP xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" CLIENT_REQUEST_ID="1"> <BIND CLIENT_ID="test" PASSWORD="test" /> </MCP> 

I don't understand why use namsespace hint in XmlRootAttribute?

Answer 1

Try the following:

 public class BINDRequest { [XmlAttribute] public string CLIENT_REQUEST_ID { get; set; } } class Program { static void Main() { var request = new BINDRequest { CLIENT_REQUEST_ID = "123" }; var serializer = new XmlSerializer(request.GetType()); var xmlnsEmpty = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(); xmlnsEmpty.Add("", ""); using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create("result.xml")) { serializer.Serialize(writer, request, xmlnsEmpty); } } }