Alter namespace prefixing with ElementTree in Python

Question

By default, when you call ElementTree.parse(someXMLfile) the Python ElementTree library prefixes every parsed node with it\'s namespace URI in Clark\'s Notation:

Answer 1

xml.etree.ElementTree doesn't appear to have fixtag, well, not according to the documentation. However I've looked at some source code for fixtag and you do:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

for event, elem in ET.iterparse(inFile, events=("start", "end")):
    namespace, looktag = string.split(elem.tag[1:], "}", 1)

You have the tag string in looktag, suitable for a lookup. The namespace is in namespace.