How do I use a default namespace in an lxml xpath query?

I have an xml document in the following format:

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:gsa="http://schemas.google.com/gsa/2007">
  ...
  <entry>
    <id>https://ip.ad.dr.ess:8000/feeds/diagnostics/smb://ip.ad.dr.ess/path/to/file</id>
    <updated>2011-11-07T21:32:39.795Z</updated>
    <app:edited xmlns:app="http://purl.org/atom/app#">2011-11-07T21:32:39.795Z</app:edited>
    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ip.ad.dr.ess:8000/feeds/diagnostics" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener"/>
    <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://ip.ad.dr.ess:8000/feeds/diagnostics" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener"/>
    <gsa:content name="entryID">smb://ip.ad.dr.ess/path/to/directory</gsa:content>
    <gsa:content name="numCrawledURLs">7</gsa:content>
    <gsa:content name="numExcludedURLs">0</gsa:content>
    <gsa:content name="type">DirectoryContentData</gsa:content>
    <gsa:content name="numRetrievalErrors">0</gsa:content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    ...
  </entry>
  ...
</feed>

I need to retrieve all entry elements using xpath in lxml. My problem is that I can’t figure out how to use an empty namespace. I have tried the following examples, but none work. Please advise.

import lxml.etree as et

tree=et.fromstring(xml)

The various things I have tried are:

for node in tree.xpath('//entry'):

namespaces = {None:"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ,"openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" ,"gsa":"http://schemas.google.com/gsa/2007"}

for node in tree.xpath('//entry', namespaces=ns):

for node in tree.xpath('//"{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry"'):

At this point I just don’t know what to try. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Method 1

Something like this should work:

import lxml.etree as et

ns = {"atom": "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"}
tree = et.fromstring(xml)
for node in tree.xpath('//atom:entry', namespaces=ns):
    print node

Alternative:

for node in tree.xpath("//*[local-name() = 'entry']"):
    print node

Method 2

Use findall method.

for item in tree.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry'): 
    print item

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