[svn r3830] r4510@delle: sbehnel | 2008-06-16 14:34:42 +0200

 docs

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branch : trunk

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/lxml/builder.py b/src/lxml/builder.py
index 460d2286..c5c25b74 100644
--- a/src/lxml/builder.py
+++ b/src/lxml/builder.py
@@ -140,6 +140,17 @@ class ElementMaker(object):
             <p>And finally, here is an embedded XHTML fragment.</p>
           </body>
         </html>
+
+    For namespace support, you can pass a namespace map (``nsmap``)
+    and/or a specific target ``namespace`` to the ElementMaker class::
+
+    >>> E = ElementMaker(namespace="http://my.ns/")
+    >>> print(ET.tostring( E.test ))
+    <test xmlns="http://my.ns/"/>
+
+    >>> E = ElementMaker(namespace="http://my.ns/", nsmap={'p':'http://my.ns/'})
+    >>> print(ET.tostring( E.test ))
+    <p:test xmlns:p="http://my.ns/"/>
     """
 
     def __init__(self, typemap=None,