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Reusing same namespace name when writing back XML with xml.etree.ElementTree - Ofnuts - Oct-20-2016
I'm editing an XML file with xml.etree.ElementTree. On input the XML has a namespace defined so all tags are of the form
<somenamespace:tag>When I write the XML back to file, the namespace is called ns0 and the tags look like:
<ns0:tag>This is valid XML but not as readable. How can i tell Python to use "somenamespace" instead of "ns0"? I tried ET.register_namespace(prefix,namespace) but that doesn't work.
RE: Reusing same namespace name when writing back XML with xml.etree.ElementTree - Ofnuts - Oct-21-2016
Oops, actually a problem in my code. ET.register_namespace(prefix,namespace) works provided that:
- It executed before reading the XML
- The namespace string is the correct one.