Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi

I have a requirement where I have to strip out an attribute called "xmlns" at the root element of my xml document.

for eg: <UserProfile xmlns="http://foo">
<ID>1234</ID>
<Name>Bob</Name>
</UserProfile>

I tried using API's
1) document.getDocumentElement.removeAttribute("xmlns")

After this my xml document look like this

<UserProfile >
<ID>1234</ID>
<Name>Bob</Name>
</UserProfile>

Also tried this..
2) Attr att=document.getDocumentElement().getAttributeNode("xmlns");
att.setValue("");
document.getDocumentElement().setAttributeNodeNS(att);

After this my xml document look like this

<UserProfile xmlns="">
<ID>1234</ID>
<Name>Bob</Name>
</UserProfile>

Irrespective of all this , when I gave the new xml document to Jaxb for processing , Jaxb complains that
unexpected root element

uri:http://foo

Though this attribute neither visible nor accessible using any DOM apis, still this attribute exists as part of this document.

Could somebody explains a little more about this behaviour or help me to resolve this..

Any feedback will be deeply appreciated,

Ranjith Pillai.