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                                         Muj9 
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                                             Posted - 2014-07-23 : 06:33:09
                                            
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                                            | <SOS xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.google.com"><SRecord><PersonalXX xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Column1>A</Column1><Per xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Column2>B</Column2></Per><Column3>C</Column3></PersonalXX><Ref xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Column4>D</Column4><Column5>E</Column5></Ref><Test xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Column6>F</Column6><Column7>G</Column7><Column8>H</Column8></Test></SRecord></SOS>Please somebody help me.I have two issues.1. i would like xmlns to appear before xmlns so it should look like this:-<SOS xmlns="http://www.google.com" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >2. the sub elements should not display xmlns="http://www.google.com".<PersonalXX xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Per xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Ref xmlns="http://www.google.com"><Test xmlns="http://www.google.com">My desired output like:- <SOS xmlns="http://www.google.com xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" "><SRecord><PersonalXX><Column1>A</Column1><Per><Column2>B</Column2></Per><Column3>C</Column3></PersonalXX><Ref><Column4>D</Column4><Column5>E</Column5></Ref><Test><Column6>F</Column6><Column7>G</Column7><Column8>H</Column8></Test></SRecord></SOS>Any ideas on this please? | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     Muj9 
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                                            Posted - 2014-07-23 : 06:40:12
                                          
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                                          | i have used WITH XMLNAMESPACES (default 'http://www.google.com')--Query and subqueries here which define the sub element for xml--for xml path('SRecord'),ROOT ('SOS'), ELEMENTS XSINIL  | 
                                         
                                        
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