ElementTree find with xmlns

I'm having problems parsing a file:

>>tree = ElementTree.fromstring("""<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:doap="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#">

<body>Hello world</body>
</html>""")

>>print tree.find('body')

None

The above works fine with the first element being a simple <html>, but
not when I have all the xmlns's.

Thanks,
Rob

Oct 13 '07 #1

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Rajarshi

On Oct 12, 11:19 pm, cakebread <cakebr...@gmail.comwrote:

I'm having problems parsing a file:

>tree = ElementTree.fromstring("""<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:doap="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#">

<body>Hello world</body>
</html>""")

>print tree.find('body')

None

The above works fine with the first element being a simple <html>, but
not when I have all the xmlns's.

Thanks,
Rob

You have to prefix the element name with its namespace. The following
will work

>>tree.find('{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}body')

<Element {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}body at 779d28>

(Python 2.5, OS X 10.4.10)

Oct 13 '07 #2

cakebread

On Oct 12, 8:35 pm, Rajarshi <rajarshi.g...@gmail.comwrote:

>
You have to prefix the element name with its namespace. The following
will work

>tree.find('{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}body')

<Element {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}body at 779d28>

Pefect, thank you, Rajarshi!

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