Relax NG support, C14N
Relax NG support, C14N
Some progress over the last few days:
've added basic Relax NG support to lxml.
lxml.etree introduces a new class, lxml.etree.RelaxNG. The class can be given an ElementTree object to construct a Relax NG validator:
>>> f = StringIO(''' ... <element name="a"; xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" ... <zeroOrMore> ... <element name="b"> ... <text /> ... <element> ... <zeroOrMore> ... <element> ... ''') >>> relaxng_doc = lxml.etree.parse(f) >>> relaxng = lxml.etree.RelaxNG(relaxng_doc)
You can then validate some ElementTree document with this. You'll get back true if the document is valid against the Relax NG schema, and false if not:
>>> valid = StringIO('<a><b></b></a>') >>> doc = lxml.etree.parse(valid) >>> relaxng.validate(doc) 1 >>> invalid = StringIO('<a><c></c></a>') >>> doc2 = lxml.etree.parse(invalid) >>> relaxng.validate(doc2) 0
And in addition, I've improved the c14n support so you can produce canonical XML output for any tree:
>>> f = StringIO('<a><b/></a>') >>> tree = lxml.etree.parse(f) >>> f2 = StringIO() >>> tree.write_c14n(f2) >>> f2.getvalue() <a><b></b></a>
The most awesome development so far is that there's a contributor!
He wrote a patch to support XPath extension functions. I still have to review this, which I will try to do soon.
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