> > Can you use set( '{ss}Type' ) somehow? > > What is 'ss' here? A prefix? > > What about actually reading the tutorial? > > http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#namespaces > > > And any way to make this look > > closer to the original? > > What's the difference you experience?
Target: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?> <Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"> <Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet1"> <Table> <Row> <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">abc</Data></Cell> <Cell><Data ss:Type="Number">123</Data></Cell> </Row> </Table> </Worksheet> </Workbook> It helped get me the working one, actually-- the tutorial. 'ss' is, and I don't know the jargon for it, a local variable, or namespace variable, prefix?, or something. xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft- com:office:spreadsheet". The ElementMaker example is closest, I think, but it's working, so, ... I'm more interested in a simplification of the construction code, and at this point I can get goofy and brainstorm. Ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list