How to query using xpath ignoring the xml namespace? I am using python lxml library. I tried the solution from this question but doesn't seem to work.
In [151]: e.find("./*[local-name()='Buckets']")
File "<string>", line unknown
SyntaxError: invalid predicate
Use e.xpath
, not e.find
:
import lxml.etree as ET
content = '''\
<Envelope xmlns="http://www.example.com/zzz/yyy">
<Header>
<Version>1</Version>
</Header>
<Buckets>
some stuff
</Buckets>
</Envelope>
'''
root = ET.fromstring(content)
print(root.xpath("./*[local-name()='Buckets']"))
# [<Element {http://www.example.com/zzz/yyy}Buckets at 0xb73a62ac>]
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