Hi Noah, Noah Slater wrote:

On 28/05/06, Stefan Behnel wrote:

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Noah Slater wrote:

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Say I have the following document:

<box xmlns="http://example.com/box" xmlns:foo="http://example.com/foo"> <foo:bar>baz></foo:bar> </box>

After I have parsed it into an element tree, how do I change it in a fool proof manner to loose the root namespace so it becomes:

<box xmlns:foo="http://example.com/foo"> <foo:bar>baz></foo:bar> </box>

Have you tried setting the tag name to the local name (without namespace)?

This does not seem to work, instead it is changing the local name but leaves the namespace alone. I have attached an example for you to look at.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

from lxml import etree

root_name = 'article' namespace_uri = 'http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'

namespace_map = {None: 'http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'}

root_element = etree.Element("{%s}%s" % (namespace_uri, root_name), nsmap=namespace_map)

# Stefan, this is what I interpreted from your email: root_element.tag = 'essay'

element_tree = etree.ElementTree(root_element)

element_tree.write(sys.stdout) sys.stdout.write('\n')

Ok, I tried this and it failed. Nice. I fixed this, so lxml now removes the namespace reference from the element. However, there is more involved than you might think, as it still leaves the namespace in the document. Finding out if the namespace is still in use is rather expensive... Anyway, the problem itself is fixed on the trunk. Stefan