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Asked: 2026-06-09T20:04:51+00:00

I have a question: I am parsing an XML that has a namespace with

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I have a question:

I am parsing an XML that has a namespace with a python xml parser ( beautifulsoup ), and when I save that xml the parser replaces: “xsi:” in the namespace with {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance} how can I prevent him from doing that ?

Example:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

Becomes:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" {http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance}schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

Can anyone help me out with this ?

Regards,
Bojan

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve filed a bug for you. I’ve also committed a fix which will be in the next release of Beautiful Soup.

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