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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:59:19 -0400
Subject: lxml question -- creating an etree.Element attribute with ':' in the name
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I can create an Element with a 'foo' attribute by doing:

etree.Element('my_node_name', foo=3D"spam")

But, how do I handle something like:

xmlns:xsi=3D"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", since =
"xmlns:xsi" isn't a valid python identifier?

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Roy Smith
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