Alain Ketterlin <alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes: > "Alex van der Spek" <alex.vanderspek at tno.nl> writes: >>> When reading a tree and writing it back to a new file all the elements are >> prepended with the string ns0: >> That's a namespace prefix. >>>>> Why is it prepended and how can I suppress this? >> See http://effbot.org/zone/element-namespaces.htm >> I'm not sure you can define the default namespace (i.e., avoid prefixes > on element names). However, any conformant XML processor should have no > problem with the output of ElementTree. Sorry, it looks like you can with ET 1.3: see http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree-13-intro.htm > If you're actually producing HTML, then you should say so when calling > tostring(), by giving the appropriate value to the method argument. >> -- Alain.