Zero Piraeus wrote:
>> You can try this:
>>
>>root = etree.parse(...).getroot()
>>new_root = etree.Element(root.tag, root.attrib)
>>new_root[:] = root[:]
>>
>> Note, however, that this will not copy root-level PIs or internal DTD
>> subsets.
>> But you can copy PIs and comments by hand
:
> > I want to remove an unused namespace declaration from the root element
> > of an ElementTree in lxml.
>
> > [...] I'm reduced to sticking the output through str.replace() ...
> > which is somewhat inelegant.
>
> And also a bit error prone (unless you are sure the replaced string really
> onl
Zero Piraeus wrote:
> I want to remove an unused namespace declaration from the root element
> of an ElementTree in lxml.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any documented way to do this, so at the
> moment I'm reduced to sticking the output through str.replace() ...
> which is somewhat inelegant.
And
:
I want to remove an unused namespace declaration from the root element
of an ElementTree in lxml.
There doesn't seem to be any documented way to do this, so at the
moment I'm reduced to sticking the output through str.replace() ...
which is somewhat inelegant.
Is there a better way?
-[]z.
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