From d59371c359a0e11571e09d0cf597dea8fb48cfd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Kanwisher <matt@kanwisher.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:29:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] add some new helper methods

---
 node.go | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index b451e15..c57dee7 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ var IndentPrefix = ""
 
 type Attr struct {
 	Name  xml.Name // Attribute namespace and name.
-	Value string   // Attribute value. 
+	Value string   // Attribute value.
 }
 
 type Node struct {
@@ -395,6 +395,26 @@ func rec_SelectNodes(cn *Node, namespace, name string, list *[]*Node, recurse bo
 	}
 }
 
+func (this *Node) RemoveNameSpace() {
+	this.Name.Space = ""
+}
+
+func (this *Node) SetAttr(name, value string) {
+	for _, v := range this.Attributes {
+		if name == v.Name.Local {
+			v.Value = value
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	//Add
+	attr := new(Attr)
+	attr.Name.Local = name
+	attr.Name.Space = ""
+	attr.Value = value
+	this.Attributes = append(this.Attributes, attr)
+	return
+}
+
 // Convert node to appropriate []byte representation based on it's @Type.
 // Note that NT_ROOT is a special-case empty node used as the root for a
 // Document. This one has no representation by itself. It merely forwards the

From 3236d1c7cbfadc08f45ff54c967ac501f7874369 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Kanwisher <matt@kanwisher.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:38:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] more helper methods

---
 node.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index c57dee7..42d55f7 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -397,6 +397,16 @@ func rec_SelectNodes(cn *Node, namespace, name string, list *[]*Node, recurse bo
 
 func (this *Node) RemoveNameSpace() {
 	this.Name.Space = ""
+	this.RemoveAttr("xmlns")
+}
+
+func (this *Node) RemoveAttr(name string) {
+	for i, v := range this.Attributes {
+		if name == v.Name.Local {
+			//Delete it
+			this.Attributes = append(this.Attributes[:i], this.Attributes[i+1:]...)
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func (this *Node) SetAttr(name, value string) {

From 199b36f2345692f9280b65ccc20fed1617927c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Kanwisher <matt@kanwisher.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:19:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] cleaning up remove function

---
 node.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index 42d55f7..85e4542 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -397,7 +397,11 @@ func rec_SelectNodes(cn *Node, namespace, name string, list *[]*Node, recurse bo
 
 func (this *Node) RemoveNameSpace() {
 	this.Name.Space = ""
-	this.RemoveAttr("xmlns")
+	//	this.RemoveAttr("xmlns") //This is questionable
+
+	for _, v := range this.Children {
+		v.RemoveNameSpace()
+	}
 }
 
 func (this *Node) RemoveAttr(name string) {