On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:29 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams, 15.05.2010 20:37: > > Say I have an XML document that begins with: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <dsml:dsml xmlns:dsml="http://www.dsml.org/DSML"> > > How can one access the namespaces define in this node? I've done a fair > > amount of XML in Python, but haven't been able to uncover the call to > > enumerate the namespaces. > > Primarily I am using etree from lxml. > What do you need the namespaces for?
One needs to know the defined namespace in order to perform xpath operations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list