[jdom-interest] Help with org.jdom.Element.removeNamespaceDeclaration

[Shawn Bellina]

 I need some help understanding removeNamespaceDeclaration - the snippet
below shows an attempt to remove the namesapce from the root.  I also tried
moving to another element with out any luck.  Can someone please point me in
the rite direction?

		_thanks shawn



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/*
 * RemoveNamespaceDeclarationTest.java
 *
 * trying to figure out how to remove a namespace from adocument?
 */

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.Element;
import org.jdom.Namespace;

public class RemoveNamespaceDeclarationTest {

    public static void main (String args[]) {
        RemoveNamespaceDeclarationTest test = new
RemoveNamespaceDeclarationTest();

            test.removeNamespace(
                        test.buildDocument("C:\\jdom_help\\test.xml")
                        );
    }

    public Document buildDocument(String path){
        // parse the in file
        Document doc = null;
        try{
            SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
            doc = builder.build(new FileInputStream(path));
        }catch(Exception e){
            System.err.println(e);
        }
    return doc;
    }
    public Document removeNamespace(Document doc){
        // remove the namespace on the root of the document
        Element e = doc.getRootElement();
        String s = e.getNamespaceURI();

        System.out.println("before: " + e.getNamespace());

        e.removeNamespaceDeclaration(Namespace.getNamespace(s));

        System.out.println("after: " + e.getNamespace());

    return doc;

    }

}
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