I have no idea why, I used to remove namespaces, following the advice
from stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4255277/lxml-etree-xmlparser-remove-unwanted-namespace
_ns_removal_xslt_transform = etree.XSLT(etree.fromstring('''
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="/|comment()|processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
'''))
xml_doc = _ns_removal_xslt_transform(
etree.fromstring(my_xml_data)
)
Later on, when I worked with SVG, I used BeautifulSoup.
Axy.
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