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

It seems that you have to declare your namespace, meaning that you need to change the first line of your xml from:

to something like:

Once did that you will no longer get ParseError: for unbound prefix: ..., and:

elem.tag = elem.tag[(len('{uri:}'):]

will remove the namespace.