How can I access namespaced XML elements using BeautifulSoup?

Question

I have an XML document which reads like this:

4000
0
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Answer 1

This is an old question but somebody might not know that at least BeautifulSoup 4 does handle namespaces well if you pass 'xml' as second argument to the constructor:

soup = BeautifulSoup("""

4000
0

""", 'xml')

print soup.prettify()


 
  
   4000
  
  
   0