xmlstarlet 1.6.8

XMLStarlet Toolkit: Python CFFI bindings

XMLStarlet CFFI

XMLStarlet Toolkit: Python CFFI bindings

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation (this package): https://xmlstarlet.readthedocs.io.
• Original XMLStarlet Documentation: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/doc/UG/

Features

Supports all XMLStarlet commands from Python, just import xmlstarlet:

• edit(*args): Edit/Update XML document(s)
• select(*args): Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc)
• transform(*args): Transform XML document(s) using XSLT
• validate(*args): Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG)
• format(*args): Format XML document(s)
• elements(*args): Display element structure of XML document
• canonicalize(*args): XML canonicalization
• listdir(*args): List directory as XML (NOT supported on Windows)
• escape(*args): Escape special XML characters
• unescape(*args): Unescape special XML characters
• pyx(*args): Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879)
• depyx(*args): Convert PYX into XML

For some examples, have a look at tests/test_xmlstarlet.py.

Credits

Kudos to XMLStarlet and its maintainers and users (original sources on SourceForge)!

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

Binary wheels built via GitHub Actions by cibuildwheel

History

1.6.8 (2022-04-30)

• Added Python 3.10 support.
• Fixed issue #199 (pending confirmation) - upgraded libxml2 and libxslt versions to fix CVEs
• Upgraded development and build-time dependencies.
• Now using latest cibuildwheel 2.5.0, which supports more architectures and builds.
• Started to improve the documentation - added better usage examples.
• Formatting and linting fixes

1.6.7 (2020-12-24)

• Fixed MacOS binary wheel builds

1.6.6 (2020-10-04)

• Simplified and automated building source and binary wheels for Linux, MacOS, and Windows via GitHub actions + cibuildwheel.
• Improved documentation and local development workflow.
• Fixes issue #51 (previously closed as “hard to fix”, but now reopened).
• Completely rewritten native Windows build process, based on libxslt.
• Windows port does not support ls (and conversely listdir()).

1.6.5 (2020-09-29)

• No changes from previous release except up-to-date dependencies and some build fixes.
• Fixes issue #118 (awaiting confirmation).

1.6.3 (2019-10-29)

• First working release on PyPI, based on xmlstarlet-1.6.1 source tarball.

1.6.2 (2019-10-28)

• Second (failed) release on PyPI, based on XMLStarlet master branch.

1.6.1 (2019-10-23)

• First (incomplete) release on PyPI, based on XMLStarlet master branch.