Re: Ignoring XML Namespaces with cElementTree

[Stefan Behnel]

dmtr, 30.04.2010 04:57:
I'm referring to xmlns/URI prefixes. Here's a code example:
  from xml.etree.cElementTree import iterparse
  from cStringIO import StringIO
  xml = """<root xmlns="http://www.very_long_url.com";><child/></
root>"""
  for event, elem in iterparse(StringIO(xml)): print event, elem
The output is:
  end<Element '{http://www.very_long_url.com}child' at 0xb7ddfa58>
  end<Element '{http://www.very_long_url.com}root' at 0xb7ddfa40>


I don't want these "{http://www.very_long_url.com}"; in front of my
tags.

They create performance disaster on large files

I seriously doubt that they do.


(first cElementTree
adds them, then I have to remove them in python).

I think that's your main mistake: don't remove them. Instead, use the fully 
qualified names when comparing.

Stefan

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