For testing purposes, you can always set the BaseX STRIPNS option when
creating a database.
If you want to have your database untouched, a solution in XQuery
looks as follows (…we should finally introduce a strip-namespaces()
function):
declare function local:strip($n) {
typeswitch($n)
case document-node() return
document { $n/(@*, node()) ! local:strip(.) }
case element() return
element { local-name($n) } { $n/(@*, node()) ! local:strip(.) }
case attribute() return
attribute { local-name($n) } { $n }
default return
$n
};
local:strip(
<x xmlns='x' a:a='A' xmlns:a='a'>
<?pi PI ?>BLA<!-- COMMENT -->
<c a:a='A'/>
</x>
)
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 3:32 PM Jonathan Robie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am playing with datasets in which namespaces are unhelpful because they
> make output harder to read. For production use, though, I want the
> namespaces to be there.
>
> Ideally, I would like to tell BaseX to drop namespaces while serializing.
> Sometimes. Ideally, I would like to be able to set this as an option in a
> .bxs file. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jonathan
