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How do I remove the namespace from the xml response below using Web API?
<ApiDivisionsResponse xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/GrassrootsHoops.Models.Api.Response"> <Divisions xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/GrassrootsHoops.Data.Entities"> <d2p1:Page>1</d2p1:Page> <d2p1:PageSize>10</d2p1:PageSize> <d2p1:Results xmlns:d3p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/GrassrootsHoops.Models.Api.Response.Divisions"/> <d2p1:Total>0</d2p1:Total> </Divisions> </ApiDivisionsResponse> 
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Once a namespace prefix is created, it cannot be changed or deleted. The workaround is to move all your code to a new Developer Organization, where you can setup the desired Namespace Prefix.
One of the primary motivations for defining an XML namespace is to avoid naming conflicts when using and re-using multiple vocabularies. XML Schema is used to create a vocabulary for an XML instance, and uses namespaces heavily.
Name conflicts in XML can easily be avoided using a name prefix. In the example above, there will be no conflict because the two <table> elements have different names.
The namespace prefix is used as an alias for the complete namespace identifier. The parser sets XML-NAMESPACE-PREFIX before transferring control to the processing procedure when the operand of the XML PARSE statement is an alphanumeric data item and the RETURNING NATIONAL phrase is not specified.
Option 1 is to switch to using XmlSerializer in GlobalConfiguration:
config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.UseXmlSerializer = true; Option 2 is to decorate your models with
[DataContract(Namespace="")] (and if you do so, you'd need to decorate the members with [DataMember] attributes).
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