I have an xml file with a default namespace, like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <root xmlns="somelongnamespace"> <child>...</child> </root> I starting using lxml to iterate and query this file, but I would like to use a namespace prefix, like this: from lxml import etree xml = etree.parse("myfile.xml") root = xml.getroot() c = root.findall('ns:child') What do I need to do for this to work? I cannot change the file, but I could change the xml object after loading. I read the relevant lxml documentation, searched and tried all kinds of suggestions, but got none of them to work unfortunately. This does sound like a very common question...? Continue reading...
