elementpath v4.6.0
elementpath
Python library that provides XPath 1.0/2.0/3.0/3.1 parsers and selectors for ElementTree and lxml
Published by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
Technical contact Davide Brunato
Development status: stable
Software functionality
XPath 1.0, XPath 2.0, XPath 3.0 and XPath 3.1 implementations
detailed information
elementpath v4.6.0
elementpath
Last release 2024-10-27 (v4.6.0)
Type of maintenance internal
Stato publiccode.yml
License MIT
Platforms
linux
windows
mac
Enabling platforms None
Compliance None
List of dependencies None
Api documentation elementpath API
Extended description
This is a library for Python 3.8+ that provides XPath 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1 selectors for Python’s ElementTree XML data structures, both for the standard ElementTree library and for the lxml library. For lxml this package can be useful for providing XPath 2.0+ selectors, because lxml already has it’s own implementation of XPath 1.0.
Installation and usage
You can install the package with pip in a Python 3.7+ environment:
pip install elementpath
For using it import the package and apply the selectors on ElementTree nodes:
>>> import elementpath
>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree
>>> root = ElementTree.XML('<A><B1/><B2><C1/><C2/><C3/></B2></A>')
>>> elementpath.select(root, '/A/B2/\*') [<Element 'C1' at ...>, <Element'C2' at ...>, <Element 'C3' at ...>]