Tim Chambers <tygru...@gmail.com> added the comment: I suggest adding the option to keep the namespace prefixes in the tree when reading in (will it need to set a tree wide variable for the instance?). I haven't looked at the etree internals in detail.
Add a function to ElementTree that returns the tag using the namespace prefix (eg. treenode.tagpre). Namespaces and prefixes are cached and used to expand the prefix only when absolutely required. Some XML/xpath search operations currently assume the full expanded namespaces not prefixes which may lead to side-effects. You can leave the default behaviour for compatibility. Using prefixes in the tree storage and searches would reduce memory and CPU time (when no expansion is required). ---------- nosy: +Tim Chambers _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue18304> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
