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I wrote a small function that will strip out either a list of namespaces (if you pass in ['http://ns1','http://ns2'] as nss) or all namespaces (if you pass in ['*'] as nss). Enjoy:

def stripns(x,nss):

    a = {}

    for t in x.attrib:

        a[t] = x.attrib[t]

    for dns in nss:

        ns = '{'+dns+'}'

        lenns = len(ns)

        if ns=='{*}':

            x.tag = x.tag[x.tag.find('}')+1:]

        elif x.tag.find(ns)==0:

            x.tag = x.tag[lenns:]

        for i in x.attrib:

            if ns=='{*}':

                del a[i]

                a[i[i.find('}')+1:]] = x.attrib[i]

            elif i.find(ns)==0:

                del a[i]

                a[i[lenns:]] = x.attrib[i]

    x.attrib = a

    for i in x.findall('*'):

        stripns(i,nss)