Love and Theft

pySX is my latest hobby project. It’s a very simple XML library that aims to simplify the process of handling XML as much as possible. The code can be found here: http://svn.loveandtheft.org/fredrik/pysx. Here are a couple of quick usage examples:

“Manual”

When accessing an element, two things can happen:

• You get a list back, which means that there are more then one element with that name
• You get an object of type pysx.node.Element back, which means there’s only one element with that name

Examples

Loading an xml hierarchy

import pysx
tree = pysx.handler.parse('users.xml')

Iterating over a collection of elements

for user in tree.root.users:
     print user.name
     print user.age
     print user.get_child('pysx:age') # Also under it's namespace

Accessing the n:th element

print tree.root.user[0].name

Accessing attributes

print tree.root.user['id']
print tree.root.user['pysx:id'] # namespaced

Replacing an element with another one

# replaces the first <user> with a <admin>
print tree.root.user[0].replace_self(pysx.node.Element(qname = 'admin'))
print tree.root.admin.name

Removing an element

tree.root.admin.remove_self()