[lxml-dev] lxml.objectify.deannotate refuses to clean nil nodes

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

I do see your point that xsi:nil is still a bit different from xsi:type.
That's why I had my doubts in the first place.

jholg at gmx.de wrote:
> A compromise may be to add another keyword arg "nil" to deannotate() to
> allow for xsi:nil removal if needed (defaults to False, of course :)

I think that should be done, yes. A "nil=False" keyword would nicely solve
this. And disabling it by default makes sense for two reasons: backwards
compatibility and the fact that xsi:nil may be used in existing documents.

Is a plain "nil" enough or should we use "xsi_nil"?

Stefan