Hi!
As I somtimes have to look at or even edit xml markup generated by
ElementTree, it would be a lot easier if ElementTree could use
Namespace Defaultig as described in
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#defaulting
Here is an example what I mean:
### raw input
<book xmlns='urn:loc.gov:books'
xmlns:isbn='urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6'>
<title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title>
<isbn:number>1568491379</isbn:number>
</book>
### normal ElementTree output
<ns0:book xmlns:ns0="urn:loc.gov:books">
<ns0:title>Cheaper by the Dozen</ns0:title>
<ns1:number xmlns:ns1="urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6">1568491379</
ns1:number>
</ns0:book>
### with Patch/set default_namespace="urn:loc.gov:books"
<book xmlns="urn:loc.gov:books">
<title>Cheaper by the Dozen</title>
<ns1:number xmlns:ns1="urn:ISBN:0-395-36341-6">1568491379</
ns1:number>
</book>
I wrote a small patch against ElementTree.py (Python 2.5.1
(r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35) so that one can set a namespace to
be used as a default namespace when serealising an xml tree. You can
find it at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tosh/elementtree/ Some basic
tests are provided in selftest.py and some examples in test.py.
Any chances that the patch or a funcionality like this gets added to
ElementTree?
Regards Peter
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