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

If you try to print the root, you will see something like this: http://www.host.domain/path/to/your/xml/namespace}RootTag' at 0x0000000000558DB8>

So, to avoid the ns0 prefix, you have to change the default namespace before parsing the XML data as below:

ET.register_namespace('', "http://www.host.domain/path/to/your/xml/namespace")