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+from collections import defaultdict
+import inspect
+
+import pyblish.api
+from ayon_core.pipeline.publish import (
+    OptionalPyblishPluginMixin,
+    PublishValidationError,
+    ValidateContentsOrder,
+)
+
+import ayon_maya.api.action
+from ayon_maya.api import plugin, lib
+
+
+def remove_namespace(path: str) -> str:
+    """Remove namespace from full path.
+
+    Example:
+        >>> remove_namespace("|aa:bb:foo|aa:bb:bar|cc:hello|dd:world")
+        '|foo|bar|hello|world'
+
+    Arguments:
+        path (str): Full node path.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: Node path with namespaces removed.
+    """
+    return "|".join(
+        name.rsplit(":", 1)[-1] for name in path.split("|")
+    )
+
+
+class ValidateClashingSiblingNames(plugin.MayaInstancePlugin,
+                                   OptionalPyblishPluginMixin):
+    """Validate siblings have unique names when namespaces are stripped."""
+
+    order = ValidateContentsOrder
+    families = ["pointcache", "animation", "usd"]
+    label = "Validate clashing sibling names"
+    actions = [ayon_maya.api.action.SelectInvalidAction]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_invalid(instance):
+        """Return all nodes that have non-unique names with siblings when
+        namespaces are stripped.
+
+        Returns:
+            list[str]: Non-unique siblings
+        """
+        stripped_name_to_full_path = defaultdict(set)
+        for node in instance:
+            stripped_name = remove_namespace(node)
+            stripped_name_to_full_path[stripped_name].add(node)
+
+        invalid: "list[str]" = []
+        for _stripped_name, nodes in stripped_name_to_full_path.items():
+            if len(nodes) > 1:
+                invalid.extend(nodes)
+
+        if invalid:
+            # We only care about the highest conflicts since child conflicts
+            # only occur due to the conflicts higher up anyway
+            invalid = lib.get_highest_in_hierarchy(invalid)
+
+        return invalid
+
+    def process(self, instance):
+        """Process all the nodes in the instance "objectSet"""
+        if not self.is_active(instance.data):
+            return
+
+        if not self.is_strip_namespaces_enabled(instance):
+            return
+
+        invalid = self.get_invalid(instance)
+        if invalid:
+
+            report_list = "\n".join(f"- {node}" for node in sorted(invalid))
+
+            raise PublishValidationError(
+                "With stripped namespaces there are conflicting sibling names "
+                "that are not unique:\n"
+                f"{report_list}",
+                description=self.get_description())
+
+    def is_strip_namespaces_enabled(self, instance) -> bool:
+        """Return whether any extractor is enabled for instance that has
+        `stripNamespaces` enabled."""
+        # TODO: Preferably there would be a better way to detect whether the
+        #   flag was enabled or not.
+
+        plugins = instance.context.data["create_context"].publish_plugins
+        plugins_by_name = {plugin.__name__: plugin for plugin in plugins}
+
+        def _is_plugin_active(plugin_name: str) -> bool:
+            """Return whether plugin is active for instance"""
+            # Check if Plug-in is found
+            plugin = plugins_by_name.get(plugin_name)
+            if not plugin:
+                self.log.debug(f"Plugin {plugin_name} not found. "
+                               "It may be disabled in settings")
+                return False
+
+            # Check if plug-in is globally enabled
+            if not getattr(plugin, "enabled", True):
+                self.log.debug(f"Plugin {plugin_name} is disabled. "
+                               "It is disabled in settings")
+                return False
+
+            # Check if optional state has active state set to False
+            publish_attributes = instance.data["publish_attributes"]
+            default_active = getattr(plugin, "active", True)
+            active_for_instance = publish_attributes.get(
+                plugin_name, {}).get("active", default_active)
+            if not active_for_instance:
+                self.log.debug(
+                  f"Plugin {plugin_name} is disabled for this instance.")
+                return False
+
+            # Check if the instance, according to pyblish is a match for the
+            # plug-in. This may e.g. be excluded due to different families
+            # or matching algorithm (e.g. ExtractMultiverseUsdAnim uses
+            # `pyblish.api.Subset`
+            if not pyblish.api.instances_by_plugin([instance], plugin):
+                self.log.debug(
+                    f"Plugin {plugin_name} does not match for this instance.")
+                return False
+
+            return True
+
+        for plugin_name in [
+            "ExtractAlembic",               # pointcache
+            "ExtractAnimation",             # animation
+            "ExtractMayaUsd",               # usd
+            "ExtractMayaUsdPointcache",     # pointcache
+            "ExtractMayaUsdAnim",           # animation
+        ]:
+            if _is_plugin_active(plugin_name):
+                plugin = plugins_by_name[plugin_name]
+
+                # Use the value from the instance publish attributes
+                publish_attributes = instance.data["publish_attributes"]
+                strip_namespaces = publish_attributes.get(
+                    plugin_name, {}).get("stripNamespaces")
+                if strip_namespaces:
+                    return True
+
+                # Find some default on the plugin class, if any
+                default = getattr(plugin, "stripNamespaces", False)
+                if default:
+                    self.log.debug(
+                        f"{plugin_name} has strip namespaces enabled as "
+                        "default value.")
+                    return True
+        return False
+
+    def get_description(self):
+        return inspect.cleandoc("""
+            ### Clashing sibling names with stripped namespaces
+            
+            The export has **strip namespaces** enabled but a conflict on 
+            sibling names are found where, without namespaces, they do not have
+            unique names and can not be exported.
+            
+            To resolve this, either export with 'strip namespaces' disabled or
+            reorder the hierarchy so that nodes sharing the parent do not have
+            the same name.
+        """)