Is there anyway to configure ElementTree to ignore the XML namespace? For the past couple months, I've been using minidom to parse an XML file that is generated by a unit within my organization that can't stick with a standard. This hasnt been a problem until recently when the script was provided a 30MB file that once parsed, increased the python memory footprint by 1.0GB and now I'm running into Memory Errors. Based on Google searches and testing it looks like ElementTree is much more efficient with memory and I'd like to switch, however I'd like to be able to ignore the namespaces. These XML files tend to randomly switch the namespace for no reason and ignoring these namespaces would help the script adapt to the changes. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm having a hard time finding the answer.
Additionally, anyone know how ElementTree handle's XML elements that include Unicode? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
