Parse XDocument without having to keep specifying the default namespace

Question

I have some XML data (similar to the sample below) and I want to read the values in code.

Why am I forced to specify the default namespace to access each element? I woul

Answer 1

As suggested by this answer, you can do this by removing all namespaces from the in-memory copy of the document. I suppose this should only be done if you know you won't have name collisions in the resulting document.

/// 

/// Makes parsing easier by removing the need to specify namespaces for every element.
/// 
private static void RemoveNamespaces(XDocument document)
{
    var elements = document.Descendants();
    elements.Attributes().Where(a => a.IsNamespaceDeclaration).Remove();
    foreach (var element in elements)
    {
        element.Name = element.Name.LocalName;

        var strippedAttributes =
            from originalAttribute in element.Attributes().ToArray()
            select (object)new XAttribute(originalAttribute.Name.LocalName, originalAttribute.Value);

        //Note that this also strips the attributes' line number information
        element.ReplaceAttributes(strippedAttributes.ToArray());
    }
}