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How do I remove namespaces from xml, using java dom?

I have the following code

DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory_ = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
Document doc_;
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory_.newDocumentBuilder();
StringReader reader = new StringReader(s);
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(reader);
doc_ = dBuilder.parse(inputSource);
doc_.getDocumentElement().normalize();

Then I can do 

doc_.getDocumentElement();

and get my first element but the problem is instead of being job the element is tns:job.

I know about and have tried to use:

dbFactory_.setNamespaceAware(true);

but that is just not what I'm looking for, I need something to completely get rid of namespaces.

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks,

Josh

Solution

  • For Element and Attribute nodes:

    Node node = ...;
String name = node.getLocalName();

    will give you the local part of the node's name.

    See Node.getLocalName()