Reading XML namespaces

[Stefan Behnel]

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?

Stefan