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I tried to read the xml and remove the attributes. It is working fine my side. Please check the below code and troubleshoot your issue.

static void Hari_TestRmoveXMLAttribute(Args _args)

{

#define.node('INFORMATION')

XmlDocument xmlDocument;

XmlNode xmlInformationNode;

XmlNodeList xmlInformationsNodeList;

XmlNodeList xmlChildNodeList;

int i;

int j;

Filename fileName;

XmlElement firstName;

XMLWriter xmlWriter;

XmlDocument xmlDoc;

fileName = @'D:\Test.xml';

xmlDocument = xmlDocument::newFile(fileName);

xmlInformationsNodeList = xmlDocument.documentElement().selectNodes(#node);

setPrefix("@SYS98689");

for ( i = 0; i < xmlInformationsNodeList.length(); i++)

{

xmlChildNodeList = xmlInformationsNodeList.item(i).childNodes();

for (j = 0; j < xmlChildNodeList.length() ; j++)

{

xmlInformationNode = xmlChildNodeList.item(j);

firstName = xmlInformationNode;

firstName.removeAttribute('EMPID');

}

xmlWriter = XMLWriter::newFile(@'d:\Test1.xml');

xmlDocument.writeTo(xmlWriter);

}

Before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

</INFORMATION>

</INFORMATIONS>

After:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

</INFORMATION>

</INFORMATIONS>

Hi Martin,
below is the classDeclaration with macros in it and methods thats create parent and child elements which has problem.

//class declaration
#define.Dec('ns2:Dec')        
#define.Dec_VATNumber('VATNumber')
#define.Dec_Name('Name')
#define.Dec_Street('Street')
#define.Dec_PostCode('PostCode')
#define.Dec_City('City')
#define.Dec_CountryCode('CountryCode')
#define.Dec_EmailAddress('EmailAddress')
#define.Dec_Phone('Phone')
//==========================
#define.Rep_Representative('ns2:Rep')
#define.Rep_RepId('RepID')
#define.Rep_IssuedBy('issuedBy')
#define.Rep_IdentificationType('identificationType')
#define.Rep_NVAT('NVAT')
#define.Rep_Name('Name')
#define.Rep_Street('Street')
#define.Rep_PostCode('PostCode')
#define.Rep_City('City')
#define.Rep_CountryCode('CountryCode')
#define.Rep_EmailAddress('EmailAddress')
#define.Rep_Phone('Phone')
//===========================
#define.XmlNs2('xmlns:ns2')
#define.Ns2('http://www.webSite.com/page')
#define.XmlNs('xmlns')
#define.Dec_IntraListingNbr('ns2:IntraListingsNbr')
#define.ParNode('ns2:Parent')

//method to create parent element

private XmlElement createParentElement(XmlDocument _xmlDoc, str _parElementName)
{
    XmlElement      xmlRootElement;
    ;
    //xmlRootElement = _xmlDoc.createElement(_parElementName);
    xmlRootElement = _xmlDoc.createElement2(_parElementName, #Ns2);
    xmlRootElement.setAttribute(#XmlNs, 'www.website.com/inputPage');
    xmlRootElement.setAttribute(#XmlNs2, #Ns2);

    xmlRootElement.setAttribute(#Dec_IntraListingNbr, '1');

    _xmlDoc.appendChild(xmlRootElement);

    return xmlRootElement;
}

// method to create child nodes for Dec

private void createDecInfoElement(
    XmlDocument _xmlDoc,
    XmlElement _xmlDecElement,
    str _elementName,
    str _elementValue)
{
    XmlElement  xmlElement;
    ;
    if (_elementValue)
    {
        xmlElement = _xmlDoc.createElement(_elementName);
        xmlElement.text(_elementValue);
        _xmlDecElement.appendChild(xmlElement);
    }
}

// method to create RepInfo element

private XmlElement createRepInfoElement(
    XmlDocument _xmlDoc,
    XmlElement _xmlRepElement,
    str _elementName,
    str _elementValue)
{
    XmlElement  xmlElement;
    ;
    if (_elementValue)
    {
        xmlElement = _xmlDoc.createElement(_elementName);
        xmlElement.text(_elementValue);
        _xmlRepElement.appendChild(xmlElement);
    }

    return xmlElement;
}

Here is the generated XML file with code above which has empty xmlns="" attribute that I don't want to see in generated file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ns2:Parent IntraListingsNbr="1" xmlns="www.website.com/inputPage" xmlns:ns2="http://www.webSite.com/page" >
<ns2:Rep>
<Name xmlns="">Name xxx</Name>
<Street xmlns="">Street xxx</Street>
<PostCode xmlns="">PostCode xxx</PostCode>
<City xmlns="">City xxx</City>
<CountryCode xmlns="">Country code xxx</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress xmlns="">xxx@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone xmlns="">+555555</Phone>
</ns2:Rep>
<ns2:Intra SequenceNumber="1" DecReference="0120" ClientsNbr="1" AmountSum="100.00">
<ns2:Dec>
<Name xmlns="">Name yyy</Name>
<Street xmlns="">Street yyy</Street>
<PostCode xmlns="">PostCode yyy</PostCode>
<City xmlns="">City yyy</City>
<CountryCode xmlns="">CountryCode yyy</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress xmlns="">yyy@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone xmlns="">+4444444</Phone>
</ns2:Dec>
</ns2:Intra>
</ns2:Parent>

in createParentElement method if I uncomment

xmlRootElement = _xmlDoc.createElement(_parElementName);

and comment

//xmlRootElement = _xmlDoc.createElement2(_parElementName, #Ns2);

then generated file looks like below. Here empty xmlns='' attributes are removed, but also 'ns2' prefix is removed from Parent node and it is not ok.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Parent IntraListingsNbr="1" xmlns="www.website.com/inputPage" xmlns:ns2="http://www.webSite.com/page" >
<ns2:Rep>
<Name>Name xxx</Name>
<Street>Street xxx</Street>
<PostCode>PostCode xxx</PostCode>
<City>City xxx</City>
<CountryCode>Country code xxx</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress>xxx@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone>+555555</Phone>
</ns2:Rep>
<ns2:Intra SequenceNumber="1" DecReference="0120" ClientsNbr="1" AmountSum="100.00">
<ns2:Dec>
<Name>Name yyy</Name>
<Street>Street yyy</Street>
<PostCode>PostCode yyy</PostCode>
<City>City yyy</City>
<CountryCode>CountryCode yyy</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress>yyy@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone>+4444444</Phone>
</ns2:Dec>
</ns2:Intra>
</Parent>

=======================

This is the output that I want to see. Parent node with 'ns2' prefix and child nodes without xmlns='' empty attributes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ns2:Parent IntraListingsNbr="1" xmlns="www.website.com/inputPage" xmlns:ns2="http://www.webSite.com/page" >
<ns2:Rep>
<Name>Name xxx</Name>
<Street>Street xxx</Street>
<PostCode>PostCode xxx</PostCode>
<City>City xxx</City>
<CountryCode>Country code xxx</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress>xxx@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone>+555555</Phone>
</ns2:Rep>
<ns2:Intra SequenceNumber="1" DecReference="0120" ClientsNbr="1" AmountSum="100.00">
<ns2:Dec>
<Name>Name yyy</Name>
<Street>Street yyy</Street>
<PostCode>PostCode yyy</PostCode>
<City>City yyy</City>
<CountryCode>CountryCode yyy</CountryCode>
<EmailAddress>yyy@mail.com</EmailAddress>
<Phone>+4444444</Phone>
</ns2:Dec>
</ns2:Intra>
</ns2:Parent>

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