[lxml-dev] lxml 2.2 validation question

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> jholg at gmx.de (j) wrote:

>j> Some comments:

>>> nsmap={None: 'http://example.com', 'foo': 'http://example.com'}
>>> rootElem = etree.Element('Foo', {}, nsmap)

>j> Note that this does not put Foo into the http://example.com NS. It creates an element Foo wit no namespace. The nsmap is rather a collection of known namespace prefixes in the context of an element.

But that means that the serialization:

<Foo xmlns="http://example.com">
Contents
</Foo>

that etree.tostring produces is wrong.
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