Removing namespaces at the element level

I have been using xmlBeans for a while, and it really has made my life very
easy, but have come a ccross a problem when looking at performance tuning
and wondered if anyone new the answer, or can help.

The documents I am passing are very large and I am looking at ways to redice
the size of what is sent over the wire.  On inspection I noticed that the
xml produced by xml beans contains the namespace data for each element in
the xml:

i.e.

<per:person  xmlns:per="http://www.blah.com/entities/person_v1" >
    <per:name xmlns:per="http://www.blah.com/entities/person_v1
">Bob</per:name>
    <per:origin  xmlns:per="http://www.blah.com/entities/person_v1
">UK</per:origin>
    <per:age  xmlns:per="http://www.blah.com/entities/person_v1
">34</per:age>
</per:person>

What I actually want is something like this:

<per:person xmlns:per="http://www.blah.com/entities/person_v1">
    <per:name >Bob</per:name>
    <per:origin>UK</per:origin>
    <per:age>34</per:age>
</per:person>

Thanx

m/|RK aNDREWS

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