[lxml-dev] objectify.deannotate: call to etree.cleanup_namespaces in 2.1beta

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Holger Joukl wrote:
> I have a usecase where I need to deannotate an objectified tree
> and then manually set py:pytype or xsi:type attributes.
> 
> However, this seems to be getting difficult with 2.1beta as deannotate 
> wipes out all nsmap information with its call to cleanup_namespaces(),
> and I cannot set a namespaced 
> 
> attribute through <elt>.set(...)
> 
> could we make the call to cleanup_namespaces optional (defaults 
> to True) in deannotate()? 

I wasn't entirely sure if it was a good idea when I added it. I guess it's
best to keep it out or make it optional (default False).

Stefan