Bryce Nesbitt added the comment:
The mere existence of popular solutions like
'item.tag.split("}")[1][0:]' argues something is wrong. What could
lmxl do to make this cleaner (even if the ticket proposal is junk).
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title: ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and sea
Stefan Behnel added the comment:
FWIW, lxml.etree supports wildcards like '{*}tag' in searches, and this is
otherwise quite rarely a problem in practice.
I'm -1 on the proposed feature and wouldn't mind rejecting this all together.
(At least change the title to something more appropriate.)
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New submission from Bryce Nesbitt:
ElementTree offers a wonderful and easy API for parsing XML... but if there is
a namespace involved it suddenly gets ugly. This is a proposal to fix that.
First an example:
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!/usr/bin/python
# Demonstrate awkward behavior of namespaces in
