[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches

Lars Hammarstrand added the comment: Any update regarding this? We switched to lxml to make life easier but it would be useful if this functionality also was implemented in the standard library. Wishlist: 1. Flag to ignore all namespaces during find(). 2. Ability to set default namespace

[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches

Stefan Behnel added the comment: Coming back to this issue after a while, I think it's still a relevant problem in some use cases. However, it's not currently clear what an improved solution would look like. The fully qualified tag names in Clark notation are long, sure, but also extremely

[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches

Stefan Behnel added the comment: I was referring to issue 28238 and issue 30485. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches

Tim Chambers added the comment: I suggest adding the option to keep the namespace prefixes in the tree when reading in (will it need to set a tree wide variable for the instance?). I haven't looked at the etree internals in detail. Add a function to ElementTree that

[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches

Changes by Martin Panter : -- title: ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and seaches -> ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and searches ___ Python tracker