I have a XML document that has namespaces in it. I want to use the find* methods to select elements but it's looks like it is not possible without specifying namespaces explicitly to every call. Is this true? Is this by design? This seems very burdensome to do so when namespaces are included in the XML document. It would be really nice if the namespaces in the XML document could be considered.
xml = b"""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root xmlns="urn:defaultnamespace"> <Timestamp>2025-01-09T17:46:08.766Z</Timestamp> <namespaced xmlns:ns="urn:subns"> <rootdefault>text</rootdefault> <ns:element>element</ns:element> </namespaced></root>"""from lxml import etreexml_doc = etree.fromstring(xml)print(xml_doc)print("namespaces: " + str(xml_doc.nsmap))print(f"find root without namespace {xml_doc.find(".")}")print(f"find root with namespace {xml_doc.find(".", namespaces = {**xml_doc.nsmap})}")print(f"find Timestamp without namespace {xml_doc.find("./Timestamp")}")print(f"find Timestamp with namespace {xml_doc.find("./Timestamp", namespaces = {**xml_doc.nsmap})}")print(f"find namespaced without namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced")}")print(f"find namespaced with namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced", namespaces = {**xml_doc.nsmap})}")print(f"find element with namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/rootdefault")}")print(f"find rootdefault with namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/rootdefault", namespaces = {**xml_doc.nsmap})}")print(f"find namespaced no namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/element")}")try: print(f"find namespaced default namespace only {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/ns:element", namespaces = {None: "urn:defaultnamespace"})}")except SyntaxError as e: print(f"find namespaced default namespace only error {e}")print(f"find namespaced ns namespace only {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/ns:element", namespaces = {"ns": "urn:subns"})}")print(f"find namespaced with full namespace {xml_doc.find("./namespaced/ns:element", namespaces = {None: "urn:defaultnamespace", "ns": "urn:subns"})}")
