Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; public class Main { /** * Removes the namespace information from a given XML String. * This method should be used only when the namespace information is not known beforehand. Copied from * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4661154/how-do-i-remove-namespaces-from-xml-using-java-dom * * @param xmlString * XML without name space definitions * @return */ public static String removeNameSpaces(String xmlString) { return xmlString.replaceAll("xmlns.*?(\"|\').*?(\"|\')", "").replaceAll("xsi.*?(\"|').*?(\"|')", "") .replaceAll("(<)(\\w+:)(.*?>)", "$1$3").replaceAll("(</)(\\w+:)(.*?>)", "$1$3"); } }