On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 20:48 +0530, Nitin Pawar wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Jim <jim.heffe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I wonder if someone knows about lxml.etree and > namespaces?
Yes, and don't. > I want to build an ElementTree where some of the sub-elements have > attributes that serialize this way. > <comment xml:lang='de'>..</comment> > I've tried just comment_elet.set('xml:lang','de') and it didn't like > that at all (although it takes comment_elet.set('auth:id','jones') > just fine). I've also spelunked the docs and googled but have not hit > on the right invocation. If someone knows, I'd be grateful. I'd *strongly* recommend using ElementFlow for building XML documents (over ElementTree), especially if namespaces are involved. ElementFlow is far more intuitive. <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/elementflow> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list