lxml is an open source third-party library that builds on the popular libxml2 parser. It provides a 100% compatible ElementTree API, then extends it with full XPath support and a few other niceties. There are installers available for Windows; Linux users should always try to use distribution-specific tools like yum or apt-get to install precompiled binaries from their repositories. Otherwise you’ll need to install lxml manually.
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lxml is an open source third-party library that builds on the popular libxml2 parser. It provides a 100% compatible ElementTree API, then extends it with full XPath 1.0 support and a few other niceties. There are installers available for Windows; Linux users should always try to use distribution-specific tools like yum or apt-get to install precompiled binaries from their repositories. Otherwise you’ll need to install lxml manually.
>>> from lxml import etree ① @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ except ImportError:
author elements that have an Atom uri element as a child. This only returns two author elements, the ones in the first and second entry. The author in the last entry contains only a name, not a uri.
-Not enough for you? lxml also integrates support for arbitrary XPath expressions. I’m not going to go into depth about XPath syntax; that could be a whole book unto itself! But I will show you how it integrates into lxml.
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Not enough for you? lxml also integrates support for arbitrary XPath 1.0 expressions. I’m not going to go into depth about XPath syntax; that could be a whole book unto itself! But I will show you how it integrates into lxml.
>>> import lxml.etree