# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
ET.register_namespace("nms", "http://www.mycompany.com")
tree = ET.parse(r"test.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
print len(root)
id = 1
for document in root:
print document.get('id')
document.set('id', "%d"%(id))
id = id + 1
tree.write(r"test.xml", encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True)
test.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<nms:docset xmlns:nms="http://www.mycompany.com">
<nms:document id="1">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
<nms:document id="2">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
<nms:document id="3">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
<nms:document id="4">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
<nms:document id="5">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
<nms:document id="6">
<content>text<>!@#$%^&*()_-=+\/{}[] context haha</content>
</nms:document>
</nms:docset>
[url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13372604/python-elementtree-parsing-unbound-prefix-error[/url]
[url]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4997848/emitting-namespace-specifications-with-elementtree-in-python[/url]