Remove namespaces for easier Xpath queries

Xpath can get strange when namespaces are involved

> doc = Nokogiri::XML(<<-XML)
  <a xmlns='http://www.example.com/xhtml'>
    <b>
      <c></c>
    </b>
  </a>
  XML
> doc.xpath("/a")
[] # returns empty array
> doc.xpath("/*[name()='a']")
# returns the first node

The [name()='a'] isn't really clear and will become less clear as the query looks for elements deeper in the document. When the namespace doesn't provide any value, for instance by helping to avoid collisions, or helping to validate the given xml document, then removing the namespace is entirely acceptable.

In Nokogiri you can remove namespaces from the document with, remove_namespaces!.

> doc.remove_namespaces!
> doc.xpath('/a')
[<Node a>]

Now traversing the document with xpath will be significantly more straightforward.