Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Getting Rid of the my: Namespace

It would be reasonable to expect that you could extract the template files and simply remove or replace the my: namespace prefix, and if replacing my: with another namespace name, change xmlns:my to xmlns:tns (or whatever) in every file. This technique works when you replace the my: namespace prefix with another prefix, but it usually doesn’t work when you remove the namespace prefix. In the latter case, attempting to open manifest.xsf displays schema error messages. It’s possible to manually alter the schema, but doing this is impractical for even moderately complex documents.

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