Xul is a set of XML scripts written in Python.
ppx: pretty print XMLxp: select XML nodes with XPathtransform: transform XML with XSLTvalidate: validate XML with XSD, DTD or RELAX NG
Xul command line scripts can be installed with pip:
$ pip install Xul
Install Pygments for XML syntax highlighting (optional).
$ pip install Xul[syntax]
Xul uses the excellent lxml XML toolkit, a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
Xul documentation can be found on Read The Docs.
List the command-line options of a Xul script with --help.
For example:
$ xp --help
usage: xp [-h] [-V] [-l | -L] [-d DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX] [-e] [-q] [-p] [-r] [-m] xpath_expr [xml_source ...]
Select nodes in an XML source with an XPath expression.
positional arguments:
xpath_expr XPath expression
xml_source XML source (file, <stdin>, http://...)
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-m, --method use ElementTree.xpath method instead of XPath class
file hit options:
output filenames to standard output
-l, -f, --files-with-hits
only names of files with a result that is not false and
not NaN are written to standard output
-L, -F, --files-without-hits
only names of files with a false or NaN result, or without a result,
are written to standard output
namespace options:
-d DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX, --default-prefix DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX
set the prefix for the default namespace in XPath [default: 'd']
-e, --exslt add EXSLT XML namespaces
-q, --quiet don't print XML source namespaces
element output options:
-p, --pretty-element pretty print the result element
-r, --result-xpath print the XPath expression of the result element (or its parent)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
- XML Schema 1.1
- XSL Transformations (XSLT) 1.0
- XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0
- Namespaces in XML 1.0