William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:38:46PM -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: >> Note that ET uses the URI of the namespace, not the short name. > > That's a huge help, thank you. What would I do if there is no namespace > for the given documents? I find that a great deal of "XML" content is > just well-formed ad-hoc-ery, lacking formal definitions and namespaces, > and so there is no URI to put in the find argument. Do I have to find a > new module? Thanks again.
I think it will just parse as the tag name in that case; try it and see! If you have truly bad XML - that is not well-formed so it won't parse with a correct parser - then you need BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
