Remove the namespace from xml tags

remove_xml_tags.py

from io import StringIO

import sys
from lxml import objectify, etree

ns = '{http://autosar.org/X.X.X}'
file = r'demo_swc.arxml'
file2 = file.replace('demo_swc.arxml', 'demo_swc_without_ns.arxml')

with open(file) as f:
    xml_in = f.read()
f.close()

parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True)
root = etree.fromstring(xml_in, parser=parser)


def remove_namespace():
    for elem in root.getiterator():
        if elem.tag.startswith(ns):
            elem.tag = elem.tag.replace(ns, '')

remove_namespace()

for elem in root.findall('.//ADMIN-DATA'):
    parent = elem.getparent()
    parent.remove(elem)

tree = etree.ElementTree(root)
tree.write(file2, pretty_print=True)