On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:58 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams, 15.05.2010 22:40: > > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:29 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> Adam Tauno Williams, 15.05.2010 20:37: > >>> Say I have an XML document that begins with: > >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > >>> <dsml:dsml xmlns:dsml="http://www.dsml.org/DSML";> > >>> How can one access the namespaces define in this node? I've done a fair > >>> amount of XML in Python, but haven't been able to uncover the call to > >>> enumerate the namespaces. > >>> Primarily I am using etree from lxml. > >> What do you need the namespaces for? > > One needs to know the defined namespace in order to perform xpath > > operations. > Well, yes, but unless you already know the namespace (URI), you can't know > what the tag you find signifies in the first place. > Unless, obviously, you are confusing namespaces with namespace prefixes. > But you don't need to know the prefixes for XPath. > Does this help? > http://codespeak.net/lxml/xpathxslt.html#namespaces-and-prefixes
I know that. I'm getting an XML document and an xpath and need to execute it. But i have to tell xpath via namespaces= the prefixes & namespaces; so I need to get that data out of the document. "If your XPath expression uses namespace prefixes, you must define them in a prefix mapping" -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
