Parsing XML with namespace in Python via ‘ElementTree’

You need to give the .find(), findall() and iterfind() methods an explicit namespace dictionary: namespaces = {‘owl’: ‘http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#’} # add more as needed root.findall(‘owl:Class’, namespaces) Prefixes are only looked up in the namespaces parameter you pass in. This means you can use any namespace prefix you like; the API splits off the owl: part, looks … Read more