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64 <h1 class="epydoc">Class QName</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
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68 <strong class="uidshort">QName</strong>
72 <p>QName(text_or_uri_or_element, tag=None)</p>
73 <p>QName wrapper for qualified XML names.</p>
74 <p>Pass a tag name by itself or a namespace URI and a tag name to
75 create a qualified name. Alternatively, pass an Element to
76 extract its tag name. <tt class="rst-docutils literal">None</tt> as first argument is ignored in
77 order to allow for generic 2-argument usage.</p>
78 <p>The <tt class="rst-docutils literal">text</tt> property holds the qualified name in
79 <tt class="rst-docutils literal">{namespace}tagname</tt> notation. The <tt class="rst-docutils literal">namespace</tt> and
80 <tt class="rst-docutils literal">localname</tt> properties hold the respective parts of the tag
82 <p>You can pass QName objects wherever a tag name is expected. Also,
83 setting Element text from a QName will resolve the namespace prefix
84 on assignment and set a qualified text value. This is helpful in XML
85 languages like SOAP or XML-Schema that use prefixed tag names in
86 their text content.</p>
88 <!-- ==================== INSTANCE METHODS ==================== -->
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111 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="__eq__"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">__eq__</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">x</span>,
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184 x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature</td>
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250 <span class="summary-type">a new object with type S, a subtype of T</span>
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256 <span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span></td>
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285 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
286 <code>__delattr__</code>,
287 <code>__format__</code>,
288 <code>__getattribute__</code>,
289 <code>__reduce__</code>,
290 <code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
291 <code>__repr__</code>,
292 <code>__setattr__</code>,
293 <code>__sizeof__</code>,
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318 <span class="summary-type"> </span>
319 </td><td class="summary">
320 <a name="localname"></a><span class="summary-name">localname</span>
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325 <span class="summary-type"> </span>
326 </td><td class="summary">
327 <a name="namespace"></a><span class="summary-name">namespace</span>
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334 <a name="text"></a><span class="summary-name">text</span>
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339 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
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371 <br /><em class="fname">(Hashing function)</em>
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395 <br /><em class="fname">(Constructor)</em>
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