Xul 2.4.1

XML (XPath, XSD, XSLT) Utilities

Xul is a set of XML scripts written in Python. Documentation can be found on Read The Docs.

Xul scripts

• ppx: pretty print XML
• xp: select nodes in XML source
• transform: transform XML with XSLT
• validate: validate an XML source

Installation

The Xul command line scripts can be installed with pip:

$ pip install Xul

Install Pygments for XML syntax highlighting (optional).

$ pip install Pygments

Dependencies

Xul uses the excellent lxml XML toolkit, a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.

Options

List the command-line options of a Xul script with --help. For example:

$ ppx --help

usage: ppx [-h] [-V] [-n] [-o] [xml_source [xml_source ...]]

Pretty Print XML source in human readable form.

positional arguments:
xml_source            XML source (file, <stdin>, http://...)

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-V, --version         show program's version number and exit
-n, --no-syntax       no syntax highlighting
-o, --omit-declaration
                      omit the XML declaration

Documentation

The Xul documentation can be found on Read The Docs.

W3C standards

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
• XML Schema 1.0
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) 1.0
• XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0
• Namespaces in XML 1.0

Related

• Extensions to XSLT (EXSLT)
• RELAX NG