lxml

I am trying to use 'py2app' to generate a standalone application from some Python scripts. The Python uses the 'lxml' package, and I've found that I have to specify this explicitly in the setup.py file that 'py2app' uses. However, the resulting application program still won't run on machines that haven't had 'lxml' installed. My Setup.py looks like this: from setuptools import setup OPTIONS = {'argv_emulation': True, 'packages' : ['lxml']} setup(app=[MyApp.py], data_files=[], options={'py2app' : OPTIONS}, setup_requires=['py2app']) Running the application produces the following output: MyApp

I scrapped some html via xpath, that I then converted into an etree. Something similar to this: <td> text1 <a> link </a> text2 </td> but when I call element.text, I only get text1 (It must be there, when I check my query in FireBug, the text of the elements is highlighted, both the text before and after the embedded anchor elements... Use element.xpath("string()") or lxml.etree.tostring(element, method="text") - see the documentation . As a public service to people out there who may be as lazy as I am. Here's some code from above that you can run. from lxml import etree def get_text1(node):

I have a large set of existing xml files, and I am trying to add one element to all of them (they are pom.xml for a number of maven projects, and I am trying to add a parent element to all of them). The following is my exact code. The problem is that the final xml output in pom2.xml has the complete parent element in a single line. Though, when I print the element by itself, it writes it out in 4 lines as usual. How do I print out the complete xml with proper formatting for the parent element? from lxml import etree parentPom = etree.Element('parent') groupId = etree.Element('groupId') groupId

I'm parsing a non-compliant XML file ( Sphinx's xmlpipe2 format) and would like LXML parser to ignore the fact that there are unresolved namespace prefixes. An example of the Sphinx XML: <sphinx:schema> <sphinx:field name="subject"/> <sphinx:field name="content"/> <sphinx:attr name="published" type="timestamp"/> <sphinx:attr name="author_id" type="int" bits="16" default="1"/> </sphinx:schema> I'm aware of passing a parser keyword option to try and recover broken XML, e.g. parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True) tree = etree.parse('sphinxTest.xml', parser) but the above does not ignore the

I 'am new to lxml, quite new to python and could not find a solution to the following: I need to import a few tables with 3 columns and an undefined number of rows starting at row 3. When the second column of any row is empty, this row is discarded and the processing of the table is aborted. The following code prints the table's data fine (but I'm unable to reuse the data afterwards): from lxml.html import parse def process_row(row): for cell in row.xpath('./td'): print cell.text_content() yield cell.text_content() def process_table(table): return [process_row(row) for row in table.xpath('./tr

I need to parse an XML file with a number of blocks of CDATA that I need to retain for later plotting: <process id="process1"> <log name="name1" device="device1"><![CDATA[timestamp value]]]></log> <log name="name2" device="device2"><![CDATA[timestamp value, timestamp value, timestamp]]]></log> </process> I will need to do this repeatedly and quickly, and I am looking for the best way to do this. I've read that ElementTree is the faster of the methods, but I am open to other suggestions. Here are two examples of how to do it: from lxml import etree import xml.etree.ElementTree as ElementTree