lxml etree xmlparser remove unwanted namespace

Question

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

  

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Answer 1

The last solution from https://bitbucket.org/olauzanne/pyquery/issue/17 can help you to avoid namespaces with little effort

apply xml.replace(' xmlns:', ' xmlnamespace:') to your xml before using pyquery so lxml will ignore namespaces

In your case, try xml.replace(' xmlns="', ' xmlnamespace="'). However, you might need something more complex if the string is expected in the bodies as well.