Python ElementTree writing multiple namespaces

Question

I have an XML document which I am reading and appending to using ElementTree. This has multiple namespaces declared. From what I can tell, ElementTree will only allow a single global namespace to be declared: ET.register_namespace(prefix, uri)

I would like to write multiple namespaces out in the resulting file. If I try to manually append them using root.set(prefix, uri) Then they are put in the wrong order, and I get cElementTree.ParseError: unbound prefix: line 2, column 0

Edit: it turns out that I had a typo in the option I was setting. I corrected this, and it re-parses fine. So it looks like this is a viable solution.

Thanks!

Could you please add more code to your question?

user647772
– user647772

2012-10-01 12:03:23 +00:00
Commented Oct 1, 2012 at 12:03 — user647772
– user647772, Commented Oct 1, 2012 at 12:03

Pedro Romano · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02 23:48:52Z

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If you are not restricted to just using the standard library, I suggest you install and use the lxml package which provides the ElementTree API, and it has a number of advantages, including easily allowing you to have multiple namespaces in the same document.

edited Oct 2, 2012 at 23:48

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 23:36

Pedro Romano

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