def read_xml_no_ns(filename):
parsed_xml = read_xml(filename)<EOL>if parsed_xml is None:<EOL><INDENT>return None<EOL><DEDENT>return delete_namespace(parsed_xml)<EOL>
read in the file or data, populating a lxml._elementTree object
stripping out namespaces

:param filename: filename representing a xml file or a string of xml data
:return: lxml._elementTree object or None