lxml etree question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 20:48 +0530, Nitin Pawar wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Jim <jim.hefferon at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Hello,  I wonder if someone knows about lxml.etree and
>         namespaces?

Yes, and don't.

> I want to build an ElementTree where some of the sub-elements have
> attributes that serialize this way.
> <comment xml:lang='de'>..</comment>
> I've tried just comment_elet.set('xml:lang','de') and it didn't like
> that at all (although it takes comment_elet.set('auth:id','jones')
> just fine).  I've also spelunked the docs and googled but have not hit
> on the right invocation.  If someone knows, I'd be grateful.

I'd *strongly* recommend using ElementFlow for building XML documents
(over ElementTree), especially if namespaces are involved.  ElementFlow
is far more intuitive.
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/elementflow>