The (excellent) ElementLibrary ads namespaces to each element when writing the tree back to a file. Say I do:
tree = ET.parse('playlist.xml') <snip: adding/removing elements> tree.write(outFile) with the following XML: ============= <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/"> <trackList> <track> <title>Kick off!</title> </track> </trackList> </playlist> ============= Writing the tree out after adding/removing elements results in: ============= <ns0:playlist version="1" xmlns:ns0="http://xspf.org/ns/0/"> <ns0:trackList> <ns0:track <ns0:title>Kick off!</ns0:title> </ns0:track> </ns0:trackList> </ns0:playlist> ============= Unfortunately the client that needs to consume this XML can't handle the 'ns0:' part of each tag. Is there a way to output XML similar to the input? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list