ElementTree find()/findall() can't find tag with namespace?

elementtree, python, python-2.7, xml, xml-namespaces

Solution

`target` is not a root element; You should prepend `.//`.

>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>> tree = ET.fromstring(xml)
>>> tree.findall('.//{http://www.company.com/app/v2}target')
[<Element '{http://www.company.com/app/v2}target' at 0x2d143c8>]

Problem

Using the following code I would expect to be able to search for the target tag, if I specify the namespace. ``` import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET xml = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xyz2:outer xmlns:xyz1="http://www.company.com/url/common/v1" xmlns:xyz2="http://www.company.com/app/v2" version="9.0" something="false"> <xyz2:inner> <xyz2:target> <xyz1:idType>name</xyz1:idType> <xyz1:id>A Name Here</xyz1:id> </xyz2:target> </xyz2:inner> </xyz2:outer>""" tree = ET.fromstring(xml) print tree[0][0] # <Element '{http://www.company.com/app/v2}target' at 0x7f3c294374d0> tree.find('{http://www.company.com/app/v2}target') # None ``` No matter what I do, I can't manage to find that target tag? I've tried various ElementTree implementations including lxml where `{*}` namespaces are allegedly accepted. No dice?

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