Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> added the comment:
lxml has a couple of nice features here:
- all tags in a namespace: "{namespace}*"
- a local name 'tag' in any (or no) namespace: "{*}tag"
- a tag without namespace: "{}tag"
- all tags without namespace: "{}*"
"{*}*" is also accepted but is the same as "*". Note that "*" is actually
allowed as an XML tag name by the spec, but rare enough to hijack it for this
purpose. I've actually never seen it used anywhere in the wild.
lxml's implementation isn't applicable to ElementTree (searching has been
subject to excessive optimisation), but it shouldn't be hard to extend the one
in ET's ElementPath.py module, as well as Element.iter() in ElementTree.py, to
support this kind of tag comparison.
PR welcome.
lxml's tests are here (and in the following test methods):
https://github.com/lxml/lxml/blob/359f693b972c2e6b0d83d26a329d2d20b7581c48/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py#L2911
Note that they actually test the deprecated .getiterator() method for
historical reasons. They should probably call .iter() instead these days.
lxml's ElementPath implementation is under src/lxml/_elementpath.py, but the
tag comparison itself is done elsewhere in Cython code (here, in case it
matters:)
https://github.com/lxml/lxml/blob/359f693b972c2e6b0d83d26a329d2d20b7581c48/src/lxml/apihelpers.pxi#L921-L1048
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