Remove q1 and all namespaces from xml

Question

I\'m given a xsd generated C# POCO object that I need to convert to xml. The expected payload however doesn\'t match the xsds I was given. Specifically, I need to omit the

Answer 1

I sometimes use RegEx or XML Linq

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string input =
                "\n" +
                    "\n" +
                        "1.4\n" +
                    "\n" +
                    "v" +
                        "WMSkuCap0180\n" +
                        "\n" +
                            "EACH\n" +
                            "3\n" +
                        "\n" +
                        "1\n" +
                    "\n" +
                "\n";

            string pattern1 = @"<[^/][^:]+:";
            string output = Regex.Replace(input, pattern1, "<");
            string pattern2 = @"