[issue18304] ElementTree -- provide a way to ignore namespace in tags and seaches

[Stefan Behnel]

Stefan Behnel added the comment:

Here is a proposed patch for a new function "strip_namespaces(tree)" that discards all namespaces from tags and attributes in a (sub-)tree, so that subsequent processing does not have to deal with them.

The "__all__" test is failing (have to figure out how to fix that), and docs are missing (it's only a proposal for now). Comments welcome.

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keywords: +patch
versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43912/etree_strip_namespaces.patch

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