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"})}")
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