Remove namespaces from Xpath expression

Question

I need a way to remove namespaces from an XPath expression, e.g if it's something like this:

/ns1:ElementOne/ElementTwo/ns2:ElementThree

it should become

/ElementOne/ElementTwo/ElementThree

Namespaces could differ within the XPath (ns1, ns2 in the example above) and can be applied at the beginning of the Xpath, e.g.

ns3:ElementFour

Regex? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The regex bellow matches the namespace format:

[\w]+:

EDIT:

For the ancestor part you can use the updated regex:

[\w]+:(?!:)

So the final solution does the following, It searches for the previously stated structure with all alphanumerical + underscore string format followed by a ':' character which is not followed by a second ':' character. Hope this helps.