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Parsing an XML document with a default namespace in Scrapy

Date Sat 05 November 2016 Tags Scrapy / XML / XPath / Python

While writing a new spider for Feeds I stumbled upon the following problem. I wanted to parse an XML feed with a default namespace but couldn't get it to work.

XML namespaces

First of all, what are XML namespaces anyway? They are used to avoid element name conflicts and are …

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