How to access declared namespaces?

[siegesmund]

I'm trying to understand the preferred way to access declared namespaces. I can get a dictionary of the declared namespaces from the root element's attributes. Is there a more direct way?

Also, if process namespaces is set to true, I can't find anywhere where the namespace is saved. #34 covers this; am I correct in understanding that the namespace is just removed and discarded?

[tadija]

Sorry, I'm not really sure what happens with namespaces, I didn't have such use case. Did you figure it out? Maybe someone else can answer this?