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diff --git a/bs4/element.py b/bs4/element.py
index 3383621..c6cb2eb 100644
--- a/bs4/element.py
+++ b/bs4/element.py
@@ -1183,6 +1183,7 @@ class Tag(PageElement):
can_be_empty_element=None, cdata_list_attributes=None,
preserve_whitespace_tags=None,
interesting_string_types=None,
+ namespaces=None
):
"""Basic constructor.
@@ -1215,6 +1216,9 @@ class Tag(PageElement):
to be considered. The default is to consider
NavigableString and CData the only interesting string
subtypes.
+ :param namespaces: A dictionary mapping currently active
+ namespace prefixes to URIs. This can be used later to
+ construct CSS selectors.
"""
if parser is None:
self.parser_class = None
@@ -1226,6 +1230,7 @@ class Tag(PageElement):
raise ValueError("No value provided for new tag's name.")
self.name = name
self.namespace = namespace
+ self._namespaces = namespaces or {}
self.prefix = prefix
if ((not builder or builder.store_line_numbers)
and (sourceline is not None or sourcepos is not None)):
@@ -1308,7 +1313,7 @@ class Tag(PageElement):
for child in self.contents:
clone.append(child.__copy__())
return clone
-
+
@property
def is_empty_element(self):
"""Is this tag an empty-element tag? (aka a self-closing tag)