[lxml-dev] Setting default namespace

[Fabien]

Hello,

I've a document with a namespace of the root element of my document
and when I display an element .tag, I get it with the namespace. Also,
when I'm using xpath(), I need to use the namespaces={..}) parameters.
Is there a way to define a default namespace in order to manipulate
the document like if it hasn't namespace ?

>>> xml = """
... <root xmlns="http://www.example.com">
...     <a />
...     <b />
... </root>
... """
>>> tree = etree.fromstring(xml)
>>> print tree
<Element {http://www.example.com}root at b73e702c>
>>> for element in tree:
...     print element.tag
...
{http://www.example.com}a
{http://www.example.com}b

Thanks in advance.

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Fabien SCHWOB
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