[lxml-dev] Handling namespaces in tags

[Stefan Behnel]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
>     local_name = etree.QName(someElement.tag).localname
>     namespace = etree.QName(someElement.tag).namespace

We could even allow passing an Element instead of a tag, such as

      local_name = etree.QName(someElement).localname
      namespace = etree.QName(someElement).namespace

I think that's even better than the other solutions so far.

Stefan