> Maybe true technically, but false in practice. If I receive XML data > from source XYZ or service XYZ the use of namespaces and their prefixes > is extremely consistent [in practice] and very customary (for example: > I've never seen the DSML namespace abbreviated as anything other than > "dsml" and I rarely see WebDAV propfind XML use a namespace prefix other > than "D"). The odds that a customer or vendors ERP will generate > different namespaces and abbreviations between requests is ludicrously > remote [I don't recall ever seeing it happen].
In that case, you could also hard-code all prefixes in your application; no need to traverse the input document. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
