When I use the XMLWriterTraceListener to log Tracemessages I get an output similar to this:

<E2ETraceEvent xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/E2ETraceEvent"> <System xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/windows/eventlog/system"> <EventID>1</EventID> <Type>3</Type> <SubType Name="Error">0</SubType> <Level>2</Level> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2006-10-10T13:15:14.5919177Z" /> <Source Name="xmlSource" /> <Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" /> <Execution ProcessName="XMLTracingTest.vshost" ProcessID="5600" ThreadID="10" /> <Channel/> <Computer>AISPC466A</Computer> </System> <ApplicationData> <TraceData> <DataItem>Hello Tracedata</DataItem> <DataItem>http://www.google.de/</DataItem> <DataItem>string2</DataItem> </TraceData> </ApplicationData> </E2ETraceEvent> <E2ETraceEvent xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/E2ETraceEvent"> <System xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/windows/eventlog/system"> ...

Obviously the XML is not well formed since it has no root element. Also it includes those two xmlns for each traceevent, wich clutters and bloats the xml. Is there a way I can overcome these two shortcomings ?