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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 67d3648..d81fccd 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1800,9 +1800,9 @@ selectors.:: # [<ns1:child>I'm in namespace 1</ns1:child>] When handling a CSS selector that uses namespaces, Beautiful Soup -uses the namespace abbreviations it found when parsing the -document. You can override this by passing in your own dictionary of -abbreviations:: +always tries to use namespace prefixes that make sense based on what +it saw while parsing the document. You can always provide your own +dictionary of abbreviations:: namespaces = dict(first="http://namespace1/", second="http://namespace2/") soup.select("second|child", namespaces=namespaces) |