Question

If I have an XElement that has child elements, and if I remove a child element from the parent, removing all references between the two, will the child XElement have the same namespaces as the parent?

In other words, if I have the following XML:

<parent xmlns:foo='abc'>     <foo:child /> </parent> 

and I remove the child element, will the child element’s xml look like

<child xmlns='abc' /> 

or like

<child /> 

Answer 1

The answer is yes, namespaces do propagate to children.

You do NOT have to specify the namespace within child elements. The scoping of a namespace includes all elements until the closing tag of the element it was defined in.

See section #6.1 here http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#scoping

hope that helps