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Edit: others have responded showing xslt as a better solution for the simple problem I have posted here. I have deleted my answer for now.

I've been through about a dozen StackOverflow posts trying to understand how to import an XML document that has namespaces, modify it, and then write it without changing the namespaces. I discovered a few things that weren't clear or had conflicting information. Having finally got it to work I want to record what I learned hoping it helps someone else equally confused. I will put the question here and the answer in a response.

The question: given the sample XML data in the Python docs how do I navigate the tree without having to explicitly include the name-space URIs in the xpaths for findall and write it back out with the namespace prefixes preserved. The example code in the doc does not give the full solution.

Here is the XML data:

Given the following xml example, how can I print both the Actor name and their location?

I would like for the output to be:

John Cleese Ohio Eric Idle Colorado

I have a question about accessing elements in lists.

This is the code:

Here are 2 examples on string operation methods from Python data science handbook, that I am having troubles understanding.

1. str.extract()

I've been answering this Creating a dataframe with text from a website and I have experienced an odd case which I cannot wrap my head around.

We have the lines below copied to our clipboard:

I've been asked to create a data frame in R using information copied from a website; the data is not contained in a file. The full data list is at:

https://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166400760/hollywood-heights-the-ups-downs-and-in-betweens

Here is a portion of the data:

I start out with two arrays in a struct that I hand over to the template engine. The first array is a list of first names, the second array is a list of last names.

How do I get the Golang-template to print a list of full names?

What I have: