[lxml-dev] How to set an attribute with a xml-namepace

[Grimm, Markus]

thanks to Holger and Stefan,

I didn't wangle the intellectual transfer from element to attribute as described in
http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#the-e-factory  :-)

Thanks,
Markus


Hi,

>  >>   xml = "<root xml:space=\"preserve\"/>"
>  >>   root = etree.fromstring(xml)
>  >>   print etree.tostring(root)
>  <root xml:space="preserve"/>
> 
> everything fine, and now...
> 
> >> root = etree.Element("root", space="preserve")
> >> print etree.tostring(root)
> <root space="preserve"/>

>>> root = etree.Element("root", attrib={'{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}space': 'preserve'})
>>> print etree.tostring(root)
<root xml:space="preserve"/>
>>>

Cheers,
Holger
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