RDFLib: Namespace prefixes in XML serialization

Question

In a Python script using RDFLib 3.0, I get the following XML-Output when serializing my triples:

Answer 1

I eventually found a solution to this by looking at some (quite messily distributed) rdflib doc files. For the (Conjunctive)Graph storing the triples, call

mygraph.bind(prefix, URIRef(url))

i.e.

mygraph.bind('ex', URIRef('http://www.my-example.intra/ontologies/ci.owl#'))

Passing 'False' as 3rd argument overrides existing namespace prefix bindings.