lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It
provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree
API.
It extends the ElementTree API significantly to offer support for XPath,
RelaxNG, XML Schema, XSLT, C14N and much more.
In case you want to use the current in-development version of lxml,
you can get it from the github repository at
https://github.com/lxml/lxml . Note that this requires Cython to
build the sources, see the build instructions on the project home
page. To the same end, running easy_install lxml==dev will
install lxml from
https://github.com/lxml/lxml/tarball/master#egg=lxml-dev if you have
an appropriate version of Cython installed.
The module lxml.sax is compiled using Cython in order to speed it up.
GH#267: lxml.sax.ElementTreeProducer now preserves the namespace prefixes.
If two prefixes point to the same URI, the first prefix in alphabetical order
is used. Patch by Lennart Regebro.
Updated ISO-Schematron implementation to 2013 version (now MIT licensed)
and the corresponding schema to the 2016 version (with optional “properties”).
Other changes
GH#270, GH#271: Support for Python 2.6 and 3.3 was removed.
Patch by hugovk.
The minimum dependency versions were raised to libxml2 2.9.2 and libxslt 1.1.27,
which were released in 2014 and 2012 respectively.
