xml python findall_Python ElementTree模块：当使用方法“find”，“findall”时如何忽略XML文件的命名空间来定位匹配元素。...

I want to use the method of "findall" to locate some elements of the source xml file in the ElementTree module.

However, the source xml file (test.xml) has namespace. I truncate part of xml file as sample:

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The sample python code is below:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse(r"test.xml")

el1 = tree.findall("DEAL_LEVEL/PAID_OFF") # Return None

el2 = tree.findall("{http://www.test.com}DEAL_LEVEL/{http://www.test.com}PAID_OFF") # Return

Although it can works, because there is a namespace "{http://www.test.com}", it's very inconvenient to add a namespace in front of each tag.

How can I ignore the namespace when using the method of "find", "findall" and so on?

解决方案

Instead of modifying the XML document itself, it's best to parse it and then modify the tags in the result. This way you can handle multiple namespaces and namespace aliases:

from StringIO import StringIO

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# instead of ET.fromstring(xml)

it = ET.iterparse(StringIO(xml))

for _, el in it:

if '}' in el.tag:

el.tag = el.tag.split('}', 1)[1] # strip all namespaces

root = it.root

This is based on the discussion here:

http://bugs.python.org/issue18304