How to remove namespace value from inside lxml.html.html5paser element tag

Question

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?

Answer 1

There is a specific namespaceHTMLElements boolean flag that controls this behavior:

from lxml.html import html5parser
from html5lib import HTMLParser

root = html5parser.parse('http://example.com', 
                         parser=HTMLParser(namespaceHTMLElements=False))    
print(root.tag)  # prints "html"