How to remove namespace value from inside lxml.html.html5paser element tag
Is it possible not to add namespace for the tag when using html5parser from the lxml.html package? Example: from lxml import html print(html.parse('http://example.com').getroot().tag) # You will get 'html' from lxml.html import html5parser print(html5parser.parse('http://example.com').getroot().tag) # You will get '{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}html' The easiest solution I found is to remove that using regex, but maybe it's possible not to include that text at all? There is a specific namespaceHTMLElements boolean flag that controls this behavior: from lxml.html import html5parser from