Firstly, XQuery is out of scope for this list. There are a number of places
that cover XQuery, for example http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ql/

Second: the "declare xmlspace" declaration controls the handling of
whitespace in the text of the query. It has nothing whatsoever to do with
namespaces. It might be that the copy-namespaces declaration does what you
want. See

http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-copy-namespaces-decl

However, this only gets rid of unused namespace nodes: it will not change
the element you are copying to be in a different namespace, so the namespace
of the element name of that node will always be declared.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> 
> i use the following xquery query in java , even i wrote the function
> "declare xmlspace  strip;"at the begining of the query i still get the
> name space declaration associate with the elements name
> 
> and i have no idia on how to strip all the namspaces
> 
> any help please
> 
> 
> public static String theBodyofquery6(String last,String gridRef,String
> Stime,String Sdate,String Etime,String Edate){
>              String result= " declare xmlspace  strip;  
> <SystemRecord> { 
> for $a in doc(\"observation.xml\")//observation where  $a
> /last=\""+last+"\" and   $a/gridRef=\""+gridRef+"\" and $a
> /time >=\""+Stime+"\" and  $a /date >=\""+Sdate+"\" and $a
> /time <=\""+Etime+"\" and $a /date <=\""+Edate+"\"     return
>  <item>   { $a /* }      </item> } </SystemRecord>";
> 
>             return result;
>      }