delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match

[harirammanohar at gmail.com]

On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 4:58:15 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> harirammanohar at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 4:09:26 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> >> Peter Otten writes:
> >> 
> >> > harirammanohar at gmail.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Here is the code:
> >> >
> >> > Finally ;)
> >> 
> >> :)
> >
> > name space issue can be resolved registering name space i have no
> > issue with that, only concern is xml parser has no effect when http
> > things are added...
> 
> No, the parser works fine. Your attempt to register a default namespace
> didn't work. Those "http things" *are* the namespace issue!
> 
> The following version of your code works. *Try it.* It finds the servlet
> element in the document object, removes it, and writes out XML text
> without the servlet element. (It seems to invent another namespace
> prefix. That doesn't change the meaning of the document.)
> 
> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
> 
> ns = { 'x' : "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" }
> 
> tree = ET.parse('sample.xml')
> root = tree.getroot()
> 
> for servlet in root.findall('x:servlet', ns):
>     servletname = servlet.find('x:servlet-name', ns).text
>     if servletname == "controller":
>         root.remove(servlet)
> 
> tree.write('output.xml')

yup its working well if i include register namespace, else i am getting ns:0  in every line of output.xml.

But its removing top line
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>