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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> I can create an Element with a 'foo' attribute by doing:
>
> etree.Element('my_node_name', foo="spam")
>
> But, how do I handle something like:
>
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", since "xmlns:xsi" isn't a valid python identifier?
>

Try this:

etree.Element('my_node_with_invalid_identifiers_name', **{'xmlns:xsi': 'spam'})

HTH,

-- 
Zach