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A lightweight library for working with Akoma Ntoso Act documents

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Cobalt is a lightweight Python library for working with Akoma Ntoso Act documents. It makes it easy to work with Akoma Ntoso metadata, FRBR URIs and generate Tables of Contents for a document.

It is lightweight because most operations are done on the XML document directly without intermediate objects. You still need to understand how Akoma Ntoso works.

Read the full documentation at cobalt.readthedocs.org.

Quickstart

Install using:

$ pip install cobalt

Use it like this:

>>> from cobalt import Act
>>> act = Act()
>>> act.title = "Act 10 of 1980"
>>> act.frbr_uri = "/za/act/1980/10"
>>> act.year
'1980'
>>> act.number
'10'
>>> print act.to_xml()
[ lots of xml ]

Contributing

  1. Clone the repo

  2. Install development dependencies:

    pip install -e .[dev]
  3. Make your changes

  4. Run tests:

    nosetests && flake8 cobalt
  5. Send a pull request

Releasing a New Version

  1. Run the tests!

  2. Update VERSION appropriately

  3. Update the Change Log section in README.rst

  4. Commit and push to github

  5. Release to PyPI:

    python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel upload

Change Log

0.3.1

  • Support for i18n in XSLT files, including all 11 South African languages from myconstitution.co.za

0.3.0

  • Support for images

  • Change how XSLT params are passed to the renderer

  • Add expression_frbr_uri method to Act class

0.2.1

  • When rendering HTML, ensure primary container elements and schedules have appropriate ids

0.2.0

  • When rendering HTML, scope component/schedule ids to ensure they’re unique

0.1.11

  • Render ref elements as HTML a elements

  • Optionally prepend a resolver URL before a elements

0.1.10

  • Convert EOL elements to BR when changing XML to HTML

0.1.9

  • Support dates before 1900. Contributed by rkunal.

0.1.8

  • lifecycle and identification meta elements now have a configurable source attribute

0.1.7

  • TOCElement items now include a best-effort title

0.1.6

  • Use HTML5 semantic elements section and article when generating HTML for acts

0.1.5

  • FIX use schedule FRBRalias as heading

0.1.4

  • Transforming XML to HTML now includes all attributes as data- attributes

0.1.3

  • Refactor TOC helpers into own file

  • Fix .format in FrbrUri

0.1.1

  • first release

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