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I'm trying to read in some xml and want to find the tag names. For example if I read <dc:title>, I want to get "title". Can someone tell me what the "dc" part is and what the "title" part is?

I'm using Python and when I iterate over the nodes and print out node.tag, it returns "{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}title". I really don't know what the url stuff is or why it's returning with my node tag.

Jongware
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TheBigOnion
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    This is an XML namespace declaration. W3C specifications (your go-to for all things XML): http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/ – Jongware May 02 '16 at 17:03

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Ok, I found this and it seems to work.

item.tag.split("}")[1][0:]
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