In a Python script I make a call to a SOAP service which returns an XML reply where the elements have a namespace prefix, let's say <ns0:foo xmlns:ns0="SOME-URI"> <ns0:bar>abc</ns0:bar> </ns0:foo> I can extract the content of ns0:bar with the method call doc.getElementsByTagName('ns0:bar') However, the name ns0 is only a local variable so to speak (it's not mentioned in the schema) and might as well have been named flubber or you_should_not_care. What is the proper way to extract the content of a namespaced element without relying on it having a specific name? In my case the prefix was indeed changed in the SOAP service which resulted in a parse failure. Continue reading...
