[lxml-dev] iterparse and namespaces

[Piotr Furman]

Hi,

I've got small problem with iterparse and namespaces. I have this code:

>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> print etree.__version__
2.1.5
>>> xml = """<root xmlns="http://www.example.com"><a>1</a><a>2</a></root>"""
>>> a1 = etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml), tag="a")
>>> a1.next()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "iterparse.pxi", line 515, in lxml.etree.iterparse.__next__
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:77014)
StopIteration
>>> a2 = etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml), tag="{http://www.example.com}a")
>>> a2.next()
(u'end', <Element {http://www.example.com}a at -488456c4>)

Is that possible to get all tags "a" without passing namespace? I mean, a2
works, but could it be possible to make a1 working too?

regards
Piotr Furman