lxml Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API. lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree API. It extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath, RelaxNG, XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more. To contact the project, go to the project home page or see our bug tracker at https://launchpad.net/lxml In case you want to use the current in-development version of lxml, you can get it from the subversion repository at http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk . Running ``easy_install lxml==dev`` will install it from http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk#egg=lxml-dev 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) http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-2.0alpha2.tar.gz lxml dev team 0891cfaf874e18654d343cd2a2c32d3521ef6a98 2.0alpha2