Search and Replace using wild characters

I have a bit of a problem on my hands while dealing jdom and xml. I am parseing an xml response from a service. The issue is that it contains an element with a colon. Nothing I can do about the service so I have to deal with it. I know I could use DOM and s on but I have chose to use jdom for a couple of reasons. What I am planning on doing is removing the colon in the element names with some sort of search and replace. The problem is that the there could be up to 500 element names with a numeric value. The element name looks like the following ns1:Point, ns2:Point, ns3:Point, and so on. JDom will not handle this so I would like it the element name to look ns1Point, ns2Point, etc. I have the xml returned from the service in a string. Is there any way I can do a search and replace given the above information. Thanks in advance

Silverfoot wrote:
I realize that it seperates the name space. The namespace for the element is different than ns1. Maybe I am missing something though
Using JDOM, I navigate my way through the xml using getChild(elementname, namespace). When i get to ns1:Point, i use the same namespace as previous elements. Are you suggesting that ns1 is another namespace. In that case I would use a second name space to the Point element.I think you're missing a whole lot, actually. You don't seem to know much about namespaces. For a start you're apparently making the beginner error of assuming that the namespace prefix declares the namespace. And this idea:
What I am planning on doing is removing the colon in the element names with some sort of search and replace.is just wrong. I would suggest you go off and find a tutorial (or a chapter in your XML book) about namespaces.

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