Extracting Nested Namespace From A Xml Using Lxml

I'm new to Python and currently learning to parse XML. All seems to be going well until I hit a wall with nested namespaces. Below is an snippet of my xml ( with a beginning and c

Solution 1:

This program prints the namespace of the indicated tag:

from lxml import etree

xml = etree.XML('''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CompositionPlaylist xmlns="http://www.digicine.com/PROTO-ASDCP-CPL-20040511#">
<!-- Generated by orca_wrapping version 3.8.3-0 -->
<Id>urn:uuid:e0e43007-ca9b-4ed8-97b9-3ac9b272be7a</Id>
<cc-cpl:MainClosedCaption xmlns:cc-cpl="http://www.digicine.com/PROTO-ASDCP-CC-CPL-20070926#">
<Id>urn:uuid:0607e57f-edcc-46ec- 997a-d2fbc0c1ea3a</Id>
<EditRate>24 1</EditRate>
<IntrinsicDuration>2698</IntrinsicDuration>
</cc-cpl:MainClosedCaption>
</CompositionPlaylist>
''')

print etree.QName(xml.find('.//{*}MainClosedCaption')).namespace

Result:

http://www.digicine.com/PROTO-ASDCP-CC-CPL-20070926#

Reference: http://lxml.de/tutorial.html#namespaces