How to include the namespaces into a xml file using lxml?

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Here is how it can be done:

from lxml import etree

attr_qname = etree.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "schemaLocation")
nsmap = {None: "http://www.xxxx",
         "stm": "http://xxxx/1/0/0",
         "xsi": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"}

root = etree.Element("route", 
                     {attr_qname: "http://xxxx/1/0/0 stm_extensions.xsd"},
                     version="1.1", 
                     nsmap=nsmap)

print etree.tostring(root)

Output from this code (line breaks have been added for readability):

<route xmlns:stm="http://xxxx/1/0/0"
       xmlns="http://www.xxxx"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://xxxx/1/0/0 stm_extensions.xsd"
       version="1.1"/>

The main “trick” is to use QName to create the xsi:schemaLocation attribute. An attribute with a colon in its name cannot be used as the name of a keyword argument.

I’ve added the declaration of the xsi prefix to nsmap, but it can actually be omitted. lxml defines default prefixes for some well-known namespace URIs, including xsi for http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance.

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