[lxml-dev] iterparse and namespaces

[Piotr Furman]

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:
> Note that this would not give you a namespace-free tag name on the
> element, so you'd still have to use qualified names in a couple of places.
> It's really best to assign the qualified names to variables and to work
> with those.
> 
> Stefan

Agree, something like 

ns = "http://www.example.com" 
etree.iterparse(xml, tag="{%s}a" % ns)

will be probably best way. Thanks for answers.