lxml etree xmlparser remove unwanted namespace

Question

I have an xml doc that I am trying to parse using Etree.lxml

  

    1&         


        

Answer 1

import io
import lxml.etree as ET

content='''\

  

    1
  
  
    some stuff
  

'''    
dom = ET.parse(io.BytesIO(content))

You can find namespace-aware nodes using the xpath method:

body=dom.xpath('//ns:Body',namespaces={'ns':'http://www.example.com/zzz/yyy'})
print(body)
# []

If you really want to remove namespaces, you could use an XSL transformation:

# http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Remove-Namespaces.xsl
xslt='''



    
      
    



    
      
    



    
      
    


'''

xslt_doc=ET.parse(io.BytesIO(xslt))
transform=ET.XSLT(xslt_doc)
dom=transform(dom)

Here we see the namespace has been removed:

print(ET.tostring(dom))
# 
#   

#     1
#   
#   
#     some stuff
#   
# 

So you can now find the Body node this way:

print(dom.find("Body"))
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