How to tell lxml.etree.tostring(element) not to write namespaces in python?

Question

I have a huge xml file (1 Gig). I want to move some of the elements (entrys) to another file with the same header and specifications.

Let\'s say the original file co

Answer 1

There is a way to remove namespaces with XSLT:

import io
import lxml.etree as ET


def remove_namespaces(doc):
    # http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Remove-Namespaces.xsl
    xslt='''
    

    
        
          
        
    

    
        
          
        
    

    
        
          
        
    
    
    '''

    xslt_doc = ET.parse(io.BytesIO(xslt))
    transform = ET.XSLT(xslt_doc)
    doc = transform(doc)
    return doc

doc = ET.parse('data.xml')
doc = remove_namespaces(doc)
print(ET.tostring(doc))

yields

    some text