On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:31:22 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > With
> > # Read above xml
> >>>> with open('soap_response.xml') as f: inp = etree.parse(f)
> > # namespace dict
> >>>> nsd = {'soap': "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";, 'locns':
> >>>> "http://example.com/"}
> >
> > The following behavior is observed — actual responses elided in the
> > interest of brevity
> >
> >>>> inp.xpath('//soap:Body', namespaces = nsd)
> > finds/reaches the node
> >
> >>>> inp.xpath('//locns:blobRetrieveResponse', namespaces = nsd)
> > finds
> >
> >>>> inp.xpath('//locns:dtCreationDate', namespaces = nsd)
> > does not find
> >
> >>>> inp.xpath('//dtCreationDate', namespaces = nsd)
> > finds
> >
> >>>> inp.xpath('//dtCreationDate')
> > also finds
> >
> >
> > Doesnt this contradict the fact that dtCreationDate is under the locns
> > namespace??
> >
> > Any explanations??
>
> Can you rewrite that question as a simple self-contained demo, similar to
> the snippet shown under
>
> http://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html#namespaces-and-prefixes
>
> ?
I guess Dieter has cleared [thanks Dieter] that namespaces dont inherit to
child
tags. I need to wrap my head around the concepts and the syntax
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