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Kirill Smelkov
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Raymond Hettinger
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Issue #23729: Improve docs for ElementTree namespace parsing
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@@ -290,8 +290,8 @@ Parsing XML with Namespaces
If the XML input has `namespaces
<https:
//
en
.
wikipedia
.
org
/
wiki
/
XML_namespace
>
`__, tags and attributes
with prefixes in the form ``prefix:sometag`` get expanded to
``{uri}
tag`` where the *prefix* is replaced by the full *URI*. Also,
if there is a `default namespace
``{uri}
sometag`` where the *prefix* is replaced by the full *URI*.
Also,
if there is a `default namespace
<http:
//
www
.
w3
.
org
/
TR
/
2006
/
REC-xml-names-20060816
/
#defaulting
>
`__,
that full URI gets prepended to all of the non-prefixed tags.
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@@ -317,17 +317,18 @@ prefix "fictional" and the other serving as the default namespace:
</actors>
One way to search and explore this XML example is to manually add the
URI to every tag or attribute in the xpath of a *find()* or *findall()*::
URI to every tag or attribute in the xpath of a
:meth:`~Element.find` or :meth:`~Element.findall`::
root = from
_
string(xml_text)
root = fromstring(xml_text)
for actor in root.findall('{http://people.example.com}actor'):
name = actor.find('{http://people.example.com}name')
print(name.text)
for char in actor.findall('{http://characters.example.com}character'):
print(' |-->', char.text)
A
noth
er way to search the namespaced XML example is to create a
dictionary with your own prefixes and use those in the search::
A
bett
er way to search the namespaced XML example is to create a
dictionary with your own prefixes and use those in the search
functions
::
ns = {'real_person': 'http://people.example.com',
'role': 'http://characters.example.com'}
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@@ -431,8 +432,9 @@ Supported XPath syntax
| ``[tag]`` | Selects all elements that have a child named |
| | ``tag``. Only immediate children are supported. |
+-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| ``[tag=text]`` | Selects all elements that have a child named |
| | ``tag`` that includes the given ``text``. |
| ``[tag='text']`` | Selects all elements that have a child named |
| | ``tag`` whose complete text content, including |
| | descendants, equals the given ``text``. |
+-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
| ``[position]`` | Selects all elements that are located at the given |
| | position. The position can be either an integer |
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