Reading XML namespaces

[Stefan Behnel]

Adam Tauno Williams, 15.05.2010 23:04:
> On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:58 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Adam Tauno Williams, 15.05.2010 22:40:
>>> 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.
>> Well, yes, but unless you already know the namespace (URI), you can't know
>> what the tag you find signifies in the first place.
>> Unless, obviously, you are confusing namespaces with namespace prefixes.
>> But you don't need to know the prefixes for XPath.
>> Does this help?
>> http://codespeak.net/lxml/xpathxslt.html#namespaces-and-prefixes
>
> I know that.

I just remembered that there's also this:

http://codespeak.net/lxml/FAQ.html#how-can-i-find-out-which-namespace-prefixes-are-used-in-a-document

Stefan