DOM parser and namespaces

Question

Hello -
I have an interesting situation...
I have a webservice and I want my client to be able to send a org.w3c.dom.Document object as the body of the SOAP request.
This is easily done w/ the SAAJ API for web services.
I also want to validate the Document before I send it over the wire.
Code:
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
factory.setValidating(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(xmlFileToUpload);
I have verified that WebLogic 8.1 is using the Apache Xerces parser.
The XML file that the client will be uploading looks something like this:
<uploadJobData xmlns="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="file://C:\ComputingJobsUpload.xsd">
     <computingJobs>
          <job> .... </job>
</computingJobs>
</uploadJobData>
My schema looks like this:
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
     <xs:element name="uploadJobData">
          <xs:complexType>
               <xs:all>
                    <xs:element name="computingJobs" type="ArrayOfComputingJobs"/>
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string"/>
               </xs:all>
          </xs:complexType>
     </xs:element>
     <xs:complexType name="ArrayOfComputingJobs">
          <xs:sequence>
               <xs:element name="job" type="ComputingJob" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
          </xs:sequence>
     </xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="ComputingJob">
          <xs:all>
               <xs:element name="queuedTime" type="xs:dateTime"/>
               <xs:element name="beginTime" type="xs:dateTime"/>
               <xs:element name="endTime" type="xs:dateTime"/>
               <xs:element name="numCpusUsed" type="xs:short"/>
               <xs:element name="numNodesUsed" type="xs:short"/>
               <xs:element name="chargeFactor" type="xs:decimal"/>
          </xs:all>
     </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>
The problem is, when the code turns on validation, I get an error that states:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'uploadJobData'.
Why is this?
Also - and an even bigger issue -
When I turn off validation, everything works fine. I can handle this, except that the newly added Document in my SOAPBody now has an XML namespace attribute (xmlns) for every element! My namespace is fairly large, so its making the content length of my SOAP request almost twice as big!
After parsing the XML file in the DocumentBuilder, the XML looks something like this:
<ns1:uploadJobData xmlns="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="file://C:\ComputingJobsUpload.xsd" xmlns:ns1="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org">     
<computingJobs xmlns="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org">
<job xmlns="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org">...</job>
</computingJobs>
<name xmlns="http://server.jobupload.services.mics.apps.mis.jlab.org">JLab</name>
</ns1:uploadJobData>
As you can see, the parser places the namespace attribute for every element.
Is there any way to turn this off?
Thanx in advance.
--Bobby                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 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