> > From my limited reading on this I think you will struggle to remove the > xmlns, the rationale being that without a namespace the xml is not valid. > While technically true, it is also annoying. > I have managed to rid the xmlns on serialize by adding (blank,blank) to a dummy XmlSerializerNamespaces object, now I have to make it accept simplified xml on deserialize.
I'm avoiding JSON for now because the first client of my API is a Borland C++ app and I don't know how they feel about weird namespaces coming at them. The xmlns also reveal internal implementation details. Greg
