How to remove the xmlns:XSI and xmlns:XSD namespaces from the xml output of a webservice in .net fra

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HI, This is an old question, i have seen some solutions on this forum itself, but am trying to use webservices for the first time so please bear with me on this one.

I have a webservice that returns XML in the following format

<subs xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" msisdn="965xxxxxx">
<shortcode label="XXXX">
<channels>
<channel>
<id>442</id>
<name>News</name>
<billingperiod>7</billingperiod>
<billingamount>3</billingamount>
<lastbilling>4/14/2010 1:41:11 PM</lastbilling>
</channel>
<channel>
<id>443</id>
<name>News2</name>
<billingperiod>7</billingperiod>
<billingamount>3</billingamount>
<lastbilling>4/14/2010 1:41:19 PM</lastbilling>
</channel>
</channels>
</shortcode>
</subs>

I want the same XMl output without the xmlns:xsd and xmlns:xsi tags.

I have tried the following solution that was suggested:

Public Function GetSubscription(....) As String

  Dim namespaces As New XmlSerializerNamespaces
  namespaces.Add(String.Empty, String.Empty)

  Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(SubsDetail.GetType)
  Dim sw As New System.IO.StringWriter
  Dim writer As New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(sw)
  writer.Formatting = Formatting.None
  serializer.Serialize(writer, SubsDetail, namespaces)
  writer.Close()
  Return sw.toString()

The result was that I got an xml in the following format:

<string>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><subs msisdn="965xxxx">
    <shortcode label="XXXX">
    <channels>
    <channel>
    <id>442</id>
    <name>News</name>
    <billingperiod>7</billingperiod>
    <billingamount>3</billingamount>
    <lastbilling>4/14/2010 1:41:11 PM</lastbilling>
    </channel>
    <channel>
    <id>443</id>
    <name>News2</name>
    <billingperiod>7</billingperiod>
    <billingamount>3</billingamount>
    <lastbilling>4/14/2010 1:41:19 PM</lastbilling>
    </channel>
    </channels>
    </shortcode>
    </subs>
</string>

Though the format of the xml is correct it is coming as string within the <string> tags. This is really driving me nuts. Can I get the output as xml without the outer string tags?

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