Mailman 3 September 2008 - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

[lxml-dev] lxml has its page on launchpad
by Stefan Behnel April 11, 2023

April 11, 2023

Hi all, I added the lxml project to launchpad, the Ubuntu Bug-Tracker. It also has a FAQ engine and a couple of other goodies. https://launchpad.net/lxml It's easy to sign up for launchpad, BTW, no 90%-footnotes-contract. Have fun, Stefan

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[lxml-dev] Checking whether a node is a comment/element
by Geoffrey Sneddon April 10, 2023

April 10, 2023

Hi, What's the best way to check whether a given node is a comment or an element? For the former, I'm currently using isinstance(node, etree._Comment), which is rather obviously sub-optimal. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>

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[lxml-dev] Reparenting a node
by Lawrence Oluyede Jan. 30, 2023

Jan. 30, 2023

I have a doc A and a doc B, I'd like to put a node extracted from A in the document B but I always get a ValueError: ValueError: Element is not a child of this node. I didn't find any "setparent" in the API. How can I do this? -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

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[lxml-dev] lxml 2.0.5 released
by Stefan Behnel Jan. 11, 2023

Jan. 11, 2023

Hi all, lxml 2.0.5 is on PyPI. This is a bug-fix-only release of the stable 2.0 series. Have fun, Stefan 2.0.5 (2008-05-01) Bugs fixed * Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work. * lxml did not honour libxslt's second error state "STOPPED", which let some XSLT errors pass silently. * Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.

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[lxml-dev] Building LXML Trunk
by Sidnei da Silva Aug. 31, 2022

Aug. 31, 2022

Hi, I've tried to build lxml from trunk today, on Win32. Got the following error: src\lxml\etree.c(880) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(881) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(882) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' src\lxml\etree.c(883) : error C2059: syntax error : ')' Any clue? Smells like a Pyrex issue? -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214

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[lxml-dev] lxml 2.0 beta1 released
by Stefan Behnel Dec. 22, 2008

Dec. 22, 2008

Hi all, I finally managed to push lxml 2.0beta1 over to PyPI. This release marks the end of the four month alpha cycle of lxml 2.0. The last stable release series, lxml 1.3, saw the light of day more than six months ago. http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.0beta1 The complete changelog for beta1 and the 2.0 alpha series follows below. Apart from a number of important fixes and enhancements, this beta release also finalises the major API changes that make the difference between 1.x and 2.x. Incompatible changes after this release will require a very good motivation. As usual, compatible enhancements will always be embraced - as will be updates, clarifications and fixes for the documentation! Asking back helps. I expect beta1 to also be the last beta release before lxml 2.0 final (hopefully not in the sense that alpha4/5/6 were), so please test as much as you can to spot any remaining bugs and problems. Note that this release depends on a bug fix in Cython that will hopefully be released as Cython 0.9.6.11 in a couple of days. I attached the necessary patch for those who want work on the sources. Another thing: there was a security advisory on the libxml2 mailing list. To prevent DoS attacks, systems that parse XML from untrusted sources should be updated to libxml2 2.6.31 (or should apply the patch that is referenced in Daniel's post below). http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-January/msg00036.html Sidnei, when you build the Windows binaries, could you please wait for libxml2 2.6.31 to become available as binaries as well? Hopefully, that won't take too long... Have fun, Stefan 2.0beta1 (2008-01-11) ===================== Features added -------------- * Parse-time XML schema validation (``schema`` parser keyword). * XPath string results of the ``text()`` function and attribute selection make their Element container accessible through a ``getparent()`` method. As a side-effect, they are now always unicode objects (even ASCII strings). * ``XSLT`` objects are usable in any thread - at the cost of a deep copy if they were not created in that thread. * Invalid entity names and character references will be rejected by the ``Entity()`` factory. * ``entity.text`` returns the textual representation of the entity, e.g. ``&``. Bugs fixed ---------- * XPath on ElementTrees could crash when selecting the virtual root node of the ElementTree. * Compilation ``--without-threading`` was buggy in alpha5/6. Other changes ------------- * Minor performance tweaks for Element instantiation and subelement creation 2.0alpha6 (2007-12-19) ====================== Features added -------------- * New properties ``position`` and ``code`` on ParseError exception (as in ET 1.3) Bugs fixed ---------- * Memory leak in the ``parse()`` function. * Minor bugs in XSLT error message formatting. * Result document memory leak in target parser. Other changes ------------- * Various places in the XPath, XSLT and iteration APIs now require keyword-only arguments. * The argument order in ``element.itersiblings()`` was changed to match the order used in all other iteration methods. The second argument ('preceding') is now a keyword-only argument. * The ``getiterator()`` method on Elements and ElementTrees was reverted to return an iterator as it did in lxml 1.x. The ET API specification allows it to return either a sequence or an iterator, and it traditionally returned a sequence in ET and an iterator in lxml. However, it is now deprecated in favour of the ``iter()`` method, which should be used in new code wherever possible. * The 'pretty printed' serialisation of ElementTree objects now inserts newlines at the root level between processing instructions, comments and the root tag. * A 'pretty printed' serialisation is now terminated with a newline. * Second argument to ``lxml.etree.Extension()`` helper is no longer required, third argument is now a keyword-only argument ``ns``. * ``lxml.html.tostring`` takes an ``encoding`` argument. 2.0alpha5 (2007-11-24) ====================== Features added -------------- * Rich comparison of ``element.attrib`` proxies. * ElementTree compatible TreeBuilder class. * Use default prefixes for some common XML namespaces. * ``lxml.html.clean.Cleaner`` now allows for a ``host_whitelist``, and two overridable methods: ``allow_embedded_url(el, url)`` and the more general ``allow_element(el)``. * Extended slicing of Elements as in ``element[1:-1:2]``, both in etree and in objectify * Resolvers can now provide a ``base_url`` keyword argument when resolving a document as string data. * When using ``lxml.doctestcompare`` you can give the doctest option ``NOPARSE_MARKUP`` (like ``# doctest: +NOPARSE_MARKUP``) to suppress the special checking for one test. Bugs fixed ---------- * Target parser failed to report comments. * In the ``lxml.html`` ``iter_links`` method, links in ``<object>`` tags weren't recognized. (Note: plugin-specific link parameters still aren't recognized.) Also, the ``<embed>`` tag, though not standard, is now included in ``lxml.html.defs.special_inline_tags``. * Using custom resolvers on XSLT stylesheets parsed from a string could request ill-formed URLs. * With ``lxml.doctestcompare`` if you do ``<tag xmlns="...">`` in your output, it will then be namespace-neutral (before the ellipsis was treated as a real namespace). Other changes ------------- * The module source files were renamed to "lxml.*.pyx", such as "lxml.etree.pyx". This was changed for consistency with the way Pyrex commonly handles package imports. The main effect is that classes now know about their fully qualified class name, including the package name of their module. * Keyword-only arguments in some API functions, especially in the parsers and serialisers. 2.0alpha4 (2007-10-07) ====================== Features added -------------- Bugs fixed ---------- * AttributeError in feed parser on parse errors Other changes ------------- * Tag name validation in lxml.etree (and lxml.html) now distinguishes between HTML tags and XML tags based on the parser that was used to parse or create them. HTML tags no longer reject any non-ASCII characters in tag names but only spaces and the special characters ``<>&/"'``. 2.0alpha3 (2007-09-26) ====================== Features added -------------- * Separate ``feed_error_log`` property for the feed parser interface. The normal parser interface and ``iterparse`` continue to use ``error_log``. * The normal parsers and the feed parser interface are now separated and can be used concurrently on the same parser instance. * ``fromstringlist()`` and ``tostringlist()`` functions as in ElementTree 1.3 * ``iterparse()`` accepts an ``html`` boolean keyword argument for parsing with the HTML parser (note that this interface may be subject to change) * Parsers accept an ``encoding`` keyword argument that overrides the encoding of the parsed documents. * New C-API function ``hasChild()`` to test for children * ``annotate()`` function in objectify can annotate with Python types and XSI types in one step. Accompanied by ``xsiannotate()`` and ``pyannotate()``. Bugs fixed ---------- * XML feed parser setup problem * Type annotation for unicode strings in ``DataElement()`` Other changes ------------- * lxml.etree now emits a warning if you use XPath with libxml2 2.6.27 (which can crash on certain XPath errors) * Type annotation in objectify now preserves the already annotated type by default to prevent loosing type information that is already there. 2.0alpha2 (2007-09-15) ====================== Features added -------------- * ``ET.write()``, ``tostring()`` and ``tounicode()`` now accept a keyword argument ``method`` that can be one of 'xml' (or None), 'html' or 'text' to serialise as XML, HTML or plain text content. * ``iterfind()`` method on Elements returns an iterator equivalent to ``findall()`` * ``itertext()`` method on Elements * Setting a QName object as value of the .text property or as an attribute will resolve its prefix in the respective context * ElementTree-like parser target interface as described in http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm * ElementTree-like feed parser interface on XMLParser and HTMLParser (``feed()`` and ``close()`` methods) Bugs fixed ---------- * lxml failed to serialise namespace declarations of elements other than the root node of a tree * Race condition in XSLT where the resolver context leaked between concurrent XSLT calls Other changes ------------- * ``element.getiterator()`` returns a list, use ``element.iter()`` to retrieve an iterator (ElementTree 1.3 compatible behaviour) 2.0alpha1 (2007-09-02) ====================== Features added -------------- * Reimplemented ``objectify.E`` for better performance and improved integration with objectify. Provides extended type support based on registered PyTypes. * XSLT objects now support deep copying * New ``makeSubElement()`` C-API function that allows creating a new subelement straight with text, tail and attributes. * XPath extension functions can now access the current context node (``context.context_node``) and use a context dictionary (``context.eval_context``) from the context provided in their first parameter * HTML tag soup parser based on BeautifulSoup in ``lxml.html.ElementSoup`` * New module ``lxml.doctestcompare`` by Ian Bicking for writing simplified doctests based on XML/HTML output. Use by importing ``lxml.usedoctest`` or ``lxml.html.usedoctest`` from within a doctest. * New module ``lxml.cssselect`` by Ian Bicking for selecting Elements with CSS selectors. * New package ``lxml.html`` written by Ian Bicking for advanced HTML treatment. * Namespace class setup is now local to the ``ElementNamespaceClassLookup`` instance and no longer global. * Schematron validation (incomplete in libxml2) * Additional ``stringify`` argument to ``objectify.PyType()`` takes a conversion function to strings to support setting text values from arbitrary types. * Entity support through an ``Entity`` factory and element classes. XML parsers now have a ``resolve_entities`` keyword argument that can be set to False to keep entities in the document. * ``column`` field on error log entries to accompany the ``line`` field * Error specific messages in XPath parsing and evaluation NOTE: for evaluation errors, you will now get an XPathEvalError instead of an XPathSyntaxError. To catch both, you can except on ``XPathError`` * The regular expression functions in XPath now support passing a node-set instead of a string * Extended type annotation in objectify: new ``xsiannotate()`` function * EXSLT RegExp support in standard XPath (not only XSLT) Bugs fixed ---------- * lxml.etree did not check tag/attribute names * The XML parser did not report undefined entities as error * The text in exceptions raised by XML parsers, validators and XPath evaluators now reports the first error that occurred instead of the last * Passing '' as XPath namespace prefix did not raise an error * Thread safety in XPath evaluators Other changes ------------- * objectify.PyType for None is now called "NoneType" * ``el.getiterator()`` renamed to ``el.iter()``, following ElementTree 1.3 - original name is still available as alias * In the public C-API, ``findOrBuildNodeNs()`` was replaced by the more generic ``findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix`` * Major refactoring in XPath/XSLT extension function code * Network access in parsers disabled by default

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[lxml-dev] Simple doctypes not in docinfo.doctype
by F Wolff Oct. 27, 2008

Oct. 27, 2008

Hallo list I've hit a snag with lxml and a DOCTYPE decleration. I don't know if I'm to blame here, but would appreciate help either way. I've tried this with an old (1.3.2) and newer (2.0.6) lxml version. (this example is roughly based on the code at http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html) from lxml import etree from StringIO import StringIO tree = etree.parse(StringIO("""<!DOCTYPE TS><TS></TS>""")) tree.docinfo.doctype '' >From my understanding this DOCTYPE declaration is valid (and occurring in the wild in Qt .ts files). My real issue is round-trip problems in a reading-writing cycle where the DOCTYPE is lost, but I guess not being able to use .docinfo.doctype is already a problem. Any help will be appreciated. Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/vrot-mango

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[lxml-dev] HTML Meta Content-Type Tag not created as documenation states?
by John Krukoff Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

So, I was trying to figure out what happend to my meta tags when using the lxml.html module, and saw the note in the documentation that html.tostring will handle them as so: > Note: if include_meta_content_type is true this will create a > ``<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" ...>`` tag in the head; > regardless of the value of include_meta_content_type any existing > ``<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" ...>`` tag will be removed > However, that doesn't seem to actually be the case. It looks like etree.tostring is never creating the meta tag as html.tostring appears to expect, and instead the include_meta_content_type flag is simply controlling whether any found meta tag is removed from the output (with an re!). Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Sep 22 2008, 12:08:38) [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from lxml import html, etree >>> h = html.fromstring( '©2008' ) >>> html.tostring( h, encoding = 'us-ascii', include_meta_content_type = True ) '©2008' Not present there, so I figure maybe it's because it's not being treated as a complete document? >>> h = html.document_fromstring( '©2008' ) >>> html.tostring( h, encoding = 'us-ascii', include_meta_content_type = True ) '<html><body>©2008</body></html>' Parsing as document doesn't create it either. >>> html.tostring( h, encoding = 'iso-8859-1', include_meta_content_type = True ) '<html><body>\xa92008</body></html>' Okay, maybe it's because I'm using the default encoding for HTML (us-ascii)? Nope, trying something else doesn't cause it to exist either. >>> html.tostring( etree.ElementTree( h ), encoding = 'iso-8859-1', include_meta_content_type = True ) '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">\n<html><body>\xa92008</body></html>' Maybe wrapping in an ElementTree? Get a doctype declaration out of that, but still no meta tag. >>> from lxml import etree >>> etree.__version__ u'2.1.2' In further testing, it appeared that if a Meta Content-Type tag was specified, it was passed though as is, as long as include_meta_content_type was True. The really weird part of this for me though, is that I've set include_meta_content_type on my much more complicated application server, and it does in fact appear to be generating meta tags automatically (or at least something in my XSLT heavy processing chain is). My testing was an attempt to duplicate that, and I was quite surprised when I couldn't. I've tried this on boxes with both libxml2 2.6.26 (RHEL5) & 2.6.32, and didn't see a difference there. -- John Krukoff <jkrukoff(a)ltgc.com> Land Title Guarantee Company

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[lxml-dev] Use cssselect.py in Pyxer
by Dirk Holtwick Oct. 5, 2008

Oct. 5, 2008

Hi, I wrote (yet another) templating language for Python based on Genshi, since Genshi itself does not yet work on Google App Engine (GAE). Since Genshi supports XPath I was thinking about using your cssselect.py module together with it. First tests showed that this seems to work fine. Now I would like to ship a little bit modified version of cssselect.py with this new templating language called "Pyxer" http://code.google.com/p/pyxer/ so the users do not have to install the whole lxml package (which does not work with GAE anyways I suppose). Since Python "lxml" is under the BSD license and Pyxer under MIT license I think this should not be such a big problem as long as I add your copyright notices to the file. Am I right? Thanks for your excellent work Dirk

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[lxml-dev] Writing TargetParser in Cython
by Max Ivanov Oct. 2, 2008

Oct. 2, 2008

Hi all! I'm trying to write TargetParser in Cython just to compare perfomance. The problem is with data types. If I define data method as "def data(self, char *data):" I'm unable to use it as TargetParser. I get " def data(self, char *data): UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)" error. I could instance and directly call data() and close() methods and everything works fine, but it refuses to work with lxml. Small testcase following: ----- _target.pyx ----------- cdef class Target: cdef list _data def __init__(self): self._data = [] def data(self, char *data): self._data.append(data) def close(self): return ''.join(self._data) ---- end of target.pyx ------ ---- test.py ------- # -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- import lxml.html from lxml import etree from _target import Target res = etree.HTML(u"ABCD", parser=lxml.html.HTMLParser(target = Target())) -------end of target.pyx ------

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