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Good python XML parser to work with namespace heavy documents
Python elementTree seems unusable with namespaces. What are my alternatives?
BeautifulSoup is pretty rubbish with namespaces too.
I don't want to strip them out.
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XML and Python: Get the namespaces declared in root element
How do I access the multiple xmlns declarations at the root element of an XML tree? For example:
import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
data = """<root
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XHTML namespace issues with cssselect in lxml
I have problems using cssselect with a XHTML (or XML with namespace). Although the documentation says how to use namespace in csselect I do not understand it: cssselect namespaces
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Python lxml iterfind w/ namespace but prefix=None
I want to perform iterfind() for elements which have a namespace but no prefix. I'd like to call
iterfind([tagname]) or iterfind([tagname], [namespace dict])
I don't care to enter the tag as ...
