lazyxml 1.3.2

A simple xml parse and build library.

Brief

A simple xml parse and build library.

Installation

pip install lazyxml

Examples

• xml to python object

>>> import lazyxml
>>> xml = '<demo><foo>foo</foo><bar>bar</bar></demo>'
>>> lazyxml.loads(xml)
{'bar': 'bar', 'foo': 'foo'}
>>> lazyxml.loads(xml, strip_root=False)
{'demo': {'bar': 'bar', 'foo': 'foo'}}
>>> xml = '<demo><foo>foo</foo><bar>1</bar><bar>2</bar></demo>'
>>> lazyxml.loads(xml)
{'bar': ['1', '2'], 'foo': 'foo'}

• python object to xml

>>> data = {'demo':{'bar': ['1', '2'], 'foo': '<foo>'}}
>>> lazyxml.dumps(data)
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><demo><foo><![CDATA[<foo>]]></foo><bar><![CDATA[1]]></bar><bar><![CDATA[2]]></bar></demo>'
>>> lazyxml.dumps(data, cdata=False)
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><demo><foo>&lt;foo&gt;</foo><bar>1</bar><bar>2</bar></demo>'
>>> print lazyxml.dumps(data, indent=' ' * 4)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<demo>
   <foo><![CDATA[<foo>]]></foo>
   <bar><![CDATA[1]]></bar>
   <bar><![CDATA[2]]></bar>
</demo>

Documentation

See docs in readthedocs

Changelog

See changelog