Saving XML files using ElementTree

Question

I\'m trying to develop simple Python (3.2) code to read XML files, do some corrections and store them back. However, during the storage step ElementTree adds this n

Answer 1

You need to register all your namespaces before you parse xml file.

For example: If you have your input xml like this and Capabilities is the root of your Element tree.

Then you have to register all the namespaces i.e attributes present with xmlns like this:

ET.register_namespace('', "http://www.opengis.net/wmts/1.0")
ET.register_namespace('ows', "http://www.opengis.net/ows/1.1")
ET.register_namespace('xlink', "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink")
ET.register_namespace('xsi', "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
ET.register_namespace('gml', "http://www.opengis.net/gml")