Fredrik Lundh <fredrik <at> pythonware.com> writes:
>
> Dave Kuhlman wrote:
>
> > 1. When I get the tag for a node (element) using node.tag, I see
> > something like this::
> >
> > {http://xxxx.com/ns/yyyy}zzzz
> >
> > The stuff inside curly brackets is the namespace. I don't need
> > that, so I use a regular expression to strip it off.
> >
> > My question is -- Is there a way to get the tag (element name)
> > without a namespace. I'll feel silly at some time in the
> > future after writing lots of code that strips the namespace
> > if I find that there is an easier way.
>
> you'll probably feel even sillier when someone adds an element with the
> same tag but in a different namespace to the data you're dealing with,
> and your program breaks in a really strange way
>
> first, the namespace *is* part of the element name. you should only
> ignore it if you know exactly what you're doing. ("don't know what it's
> good for" isn't a valid reason
>
[snip]
> hope this helps!
Yes. That helps a lot. Thanks to you, I'm not ignoring namespaces, now.
So, one more question -- If I want to check for a specific tag (for example,
document) in the default namespace, I would use the following:
if el.tag == '{%s}document' % el.nsmap[None]:
Is that right?
Is there some document that I can read that answers questions like this and
that will tell me how to do namespace related tasks in a pythonic way?
Thanks again for help.
Dave
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