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Python: Read and write namespaced XML using ElementTree

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

 

  <modelVersion>14.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>.com.foobar.flubber</groupId>

  <artifactId>uberportalconf</artifactId>

  <version>13-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <packaging>pom</packaging>

  <name>Environment for UberPortalConf</name>

  <description>This is the description</description>    

  <properties>

      <birduberportal.version>11</birduberportal.version>

      <promotiondevice.version>9</promotiondevice.version>

      <foobarportal.version>6</foobarportal.version>

      <eventuberdevice.version>2</eventuberdevice.version>

  </properties>

  <!-- A lot more here, but as it is irrelevant for the problem I have removed it -->

</project>

       

>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree

>>> tree = ElementTree.parse('example.xml')

>>> print tree.getroot()

<Element '{http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0}project' at 0x26ee0f0>

       

tree.getroot().find('{http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0}project')