Removing ":" from namespace in a XML file parsing

Asked Jul 09 '20 at 22:35

Active Jul 10 '20 at 05:01

Viewed 122 times

I am trying to modify XML file using xml.etree.ElementTree on Python 2.6.6 (due to restrictions) and facing ns0 issue. I looked at this issue and used ET._namespace_map[uri] = prefix as suggested which removed ns0 but the element tags still has the : value. How do we remove it or does it impact the validity of the XML file when we use if for further processing?

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<Seed xmlns="http://www.example.com">
    <TagA>
        <TagB>B</TagB>
        <TagC>c</TagC>
    </TagA>
</Seed>

Script

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('sample.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

try:
    ET.register_namespace("","http://example.com")
except AttributeError:
    def register_namespace(prefix, uri):
        ET._namespace_map[uri] = prefix
    register_namespace("","http://www.example.com")
tree.write('sample.xml')

Note: I could not use lxml or other xml.etree that is supported only from 2.7 version.

edited Jul 10 '20 at 05:01

asked Jul 09 '20 at 22:35

Praveen Viswanathan

@mzjn The original file does not carry that notation. After we parse it with the xml.etree only, ":" is getting added. I am fine as long as, it does not invalidate the file. – Praveen Viswanathan Jul 10 '20 at 03:58
What is "the original file"? Please provide a [mcve]. – mzjn Jul 10 '20 at 04:00
This might be a duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/q/8113296/407651 – mzjn Jul 10 '20 at 04:16
@mzjn Thanks for sharing the thread, looks like same issue. I will go through it. I have added sample XML data and script as requested. – Praveen Viswanathan Jul 10 '20 at 05:01

Removing ":" from namespace in a XML file parsing

0 Answers0