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    I think you only need the namespaces which are referenced in the script.

    In the example you posted it is only using the default namespace so I think only the xmlns="..." from the batch command is required.

    If the other namespaces were used you would see elements with prefixes like <ddl300:MyElement>...

    Because none of the elements in the process command contain any namespace prefixes I believe that it will not hurt to exclude the namespace references.

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    • Marked as answer by Elvis Long Monday, August 26, 2013 4:40 AM
    Saturday, August 17, 2013 12:18 PM

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    I think you only need the namespaces which are referenced in the script.

    In the example you posted it is only using the default namespace so I think only the xmlns="..." from the batch command is required.

    If the other namespaces were used you would see elements with prefixes like <ddl300:MyElement>...

    Because none of the elements in the process command contain any namespace prefixes I believe that it will not hurt to exclude the namespace references.

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    • Marked as answer by Elvis Long Monday, August 26, 2013 4:40 AM
    Saturday, August 17, 2013 12:18 PM
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    Hi Darren

    Im sorry for the late answer. Was busy with other Projects. Im going to test the a script Definition with the following namespace declarationa in the XMLA <Batch> element:

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine">
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

    The other elements will remain without any Namespace declaration. Hope that i can test it this week, will inform you if it worked.

    Regards Paolo

    Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:25 AM
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    Did you test it Paolo?

    I can confirm that SSAS processing seems to be working fine (as Darren suggested it would) when only keeping the one single xmlns reference in the opening <Batch> tag, and removing all others, so it stands like this:

    <Batch xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine">

    The question is, are there any possible downsides or unexpected behavior when removing the XML namespaces? It seems like because they are there and inserted when you script out a processing command to XMLA, they should also have a purpose, or?

    The advantage of removing the namespaces is obvious: we save a lot of characters in the XMLA-script when removing the name space references, especially when we have many objects to process, and this is important when building the XMLA dynamically and storing it in a variable.

    Friday, September 28, 2018 2:00 PM