osx/ubuntu auto prefixing nodes

[Jimflip]

on OSX i get the following output:

<TARGET id="target" type="FACEBOOK_PLATFORM">

on ubuntu I get

<default:TARGET xmlns="myNameSpace" id="target" type="FACEBOOK_PLATFORM">

using gem 2.2.2

This is simplified version of my large xml file, all nodes have the above xmlns and prefix added.

The version of libxml is different on each platform: osx = 2.7.3 and ubuntu = 2.7.7

[Jimflip]

The issue is caused by removing a node from the document via the remove! method and then reattaching the node via <<.

For some reason on Ubuntu this is adding a namespace to the detached node, this is not happening on osx.

I cannot find a way to remove the namespace from the node either, any ideas?

This is quite urgent so any help would be appreciated.

BTW: ruby 1.8.7

[cfis]

To get namespaces

node.namespaces

To add:

XML::Namespace.new(node, 'soap', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/')

To delete - I don't actually see a libxml2 api for deleting a namespace. If there is one it would be easy to surface in the bindings. Do you know of one?

[cfis]

Since this is so old, going to close.