Zero Piraeus wrote: > I want to remove an unused namespace declaration from the root element > of an ElementTree in lxml. > > There doesn't seem to be any documented way to do this, so at the > moment I'm reduced to sticking the output through str.replace() ... > which is somewhat inelegant.
And also a bit error prone (unless you are sure the replaced string really only occurs where you want to replace it). You can try this: root = etree.parse(...).getroot() new_root = etree.Element(root.tag, root.attrib) new_root[:] = root[:] Note, however, that this will not copy root-level PIs or internal DTD subsets. But you can copy PIs and comments by hand. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
