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Daniel Veillardd012f482007-08-22 17:36:57 +0000[diff] [blame]10</style><title>Python and bindings</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and 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xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>There are a number of language bindings and wrappers available for
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]11libxml2, the list below is not exhaustive. Please contact the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-bindings">xml-bindings@gnome.org</a>
12(<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-bindings/">archives</a>) in
13order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2
14or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p><ul><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">Libxml++</a> seems the
15 most up-to-date C++ bindings for libxml2, check the <a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/reference/html/hierarchy.html">documentation</a>
16 and the <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/libxmlplusplus/libxml%2b%2b/examples/">examples</a>.</li>
17 <li>There is another <a href="http://libgdome-cpp.berlios.de/">C++ wrapper
18 based on the gdome2 bindings</a> maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <li>and a third C++ wrapper by Peter Jones &lt;pjones@pmade.org&gt;
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <p>Website: <a href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/</a></p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]21 </li>
Daniel Veillardd012f482007-08-22 17:36:57 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <li>XML::LibXML <a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl
23 bindings</a> are available on CPAN, as well as XML::LibXSLT
24 <a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXSLT">Perl libxslt
25 bindings</a>.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <li>If you're interested into scripting XML processing, have a look at <a href="http://xsh.sourceforge.net/">XSH</a> an XML editing shell based on
27 Libxml2 Perl bindings.</li>
28 <li><a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides an
29 earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a>.</li>
30 <li>Gopal.V and Peter Minten develop <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libxmlsharp">libxml#</a>, a set of
31 C# libxml2 bindings.</li>
32 <li>Petr Kozelka provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue
33 libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers.</li>
34 <li>Uwe Fechner also provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/idom2-pas/">idom2</a>, a DOM2
35 implementation for Kylix2/D5/D6 from Borland.</li>
36 <li>There is <a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">bindings for Ruby</a>
37 and libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the <a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module
38 maintained by Tobias Peters.</li>
39 <li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for
40 Tcl</a>.</li>
William M. Brack43a87292007-02-15 20:41:02 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <li>libxml2 and libxslt are the default XML libraries for PHP5.</li>
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]42 <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx/">LibxmlJ</a> is
43 an effort to create a 100% JAXP-compatible Java wrapper for libxml2 and
44 libxslt as part of GNU ClasspathX project.</li>
45 <li>Patrick McPhee provides Rexx bindings fof libxml2 and libxslt, look for
46 <a href="http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/software.html">RexxXML</a>.</li>
47 <li><a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/xml_suite.html">Satimage</a>
48 provides <a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads_osaxen.html">XMLLib
49 osax</a>. This is an osax for Mac OS X with a set of commands to
50 implement in AppleScript the XML DOM, XPATH and XSLT. Also includes
51 commands for Property-lists (Apple's fast lookup table XML format.)</li>
52 <li>Francesco Montorsi developped <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51305&amp;package_id=45182">wxXml2</a>
53 wrappers that interface libxml2, allowing wxWidgets applications to
54 load/save/edit XML instances.</li>
55</ul><p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are guaranteed
56to be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python
57interface have not yet reached the completeness of the C API.</p><p>Note that some of the Python purist dislike the default set of Python
58bindings, rather than complaining I suggest they have a look at <a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml the more pythonic bindings for libxml2
59and libxslt</a> and <a href="http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/lxml-dev">help Martijn
60Faassen</a> complete those.</p><p><a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">Stéphane Bidoul</a>
61maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows port
62of the Python bindings</a>.</p><p>Note to people interested in building bindings, the API is formalized as
63<a href="libxml2-api.xml">an XML API description file</a> which allows to
64automate a large part of the Python bindings, this includes function
65descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used to
66build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p><p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p><ul><li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python
67 RPM</a> (and if needed the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python
68 RPM</a>).</li>
69 <li>Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/">libxml2-python
70 module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of
71 libxml2 and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2
72 and libxslt installed and run "python setup.py build install" in the
73 module tree.</li>
74</ul><p>The distribution includes a set of examples and regression tests for the
75python bindings in the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some
76excerpts from those tests:</p><h3>tst.py:</h3><p>This is a basic test of the file interface and DOM navigation:</p><pre>import libxml2, sys
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]77
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]78doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
79if doc.name != "tst.xml":
80 print "doc.name failed"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]81 sys.exit(1)
82root = doc.children
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]83if root.name != "doc":
84 print "root.name failed"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]85 sys.exit(1)
86child = root.children
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]87if child.name != "foo":
88 print "child.name failed"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]89 sys.exit(1)
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]90doc.freeDoc()</pre><p>The Python module is called libxml2; parseFile is the equivalent of
91xmlParseFile (most of the bindings are automatically generated, and the xml
92prefix is removed and the casing convention are kept). All node seen at the
93binding level share the same subset of accessors:</p><ul><li><code>name</code> : returns the node name</li>
94 <li><code>type</code> : returns a string indicating the node type</li>
95 <li><code>content</code> : returns the content of the node, it is based on
96 xmlNodeGetContent() and hence is recursive.</li>
97 <li><code>parent</code> , <code>children</code>, <code>last</code>,
98 <code>next</code>, <code>prev</code>, <code>doc</code>,
99 <code>properties</code>: pointing to the associated element in the tree,
100 those may return None in case no such link exists.</li>
101</ul><p>Also note the need to explicitly deallocate documents with freeDoc() .
102Reference counting for libxml2 trees would need quite a lot of work to
103function properly, and rather than risk memory leaks if not implemented
104correctly it sounds safer to have an explicit function to free a tree. The
105wrapper python objects like doc, root or child are them automatically garbage
106collected.</p><h3>validate.py:</h3><p>This test check the validation interfaces and redirection of error
107messages:</p><pre>import libxml2
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]108
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]109#deactivate error messages from the validation
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]110def noerr(ctx, str):
111 pass
112
113libxml2.registerErrorHandler(noerr, None)
114
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]115ctxt = libxml2.createFileParserCtxt("invalid.xml")
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]116ctxt.validate(1)
117ctxt.parseDocument()
118doc = ctxt.doc()
119valid = ctxt.isValid()
120doc.freeDoc()
121if valid != 0:
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]122 print "validity check failed"</pre><p>The first thing to notice is the call to registerErrorHandler(), it
123defines a new error handler global to the library. It is used to avoid seeing
124the error messages when trying to validate the invalid document.</p><p>The main interest of that test is the creation of a parser context with
125createFileParserCtxt() and how the behaviour can be changed before calling
William M. Brack43a87292007-02-15 20:41:02 +0000[diff] [blame]126parseDocument() . Similarly the information resulting from the parsing phase
127is also available using context methods.</p><p>Contexts like nodes are defined as class and the libxml2 wrappers maps the
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]128C function interfaces in terms of objects method as much as possible. The
129best to get a complete view of what methods are supported is to look at the
130libxml2.py module containing all the wrappers.</p><h3>push.py:</h3><p>This test show how to activate the push parser interface:</p><pre>import libxml2
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]131
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]132ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(None, "&lt;foo", 4, "test.xml")
133ctxt.parseChunk("/&gt;", 2, 1)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]134doc = ctxt.doc()
135
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]136doc.freeDoc()</pre><p>The context is created with a special call based on the
137xmlCreatePushParser() from the C library. The first argument is an optional
138SAX callback object, then the initial set of data, the length and the name of
139the resource in case URI-References need to be computed by the parser.</p><p>Then the data are pushed using the parseChunk() method, the last call
140setting the third argument terminate to 1.</p><h3>pushSAX.py:</h3><p>this test show the use of the event based parsing interfaces. In this case
141the parser does not build a document, but provides callback information as
142the parser makes progresses analyzing the data being provided:</p><pre>import libxml2
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]143log = ""
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]144
145class callback:
146 def startDocument(self):
147 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]148 log = log + "startDocument:"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]149
150 def endDocument(self):
151 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]152 log = log + "endDocument:"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]153
154 def startElement(self, tag, attrs):
155 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]156 log = log + "startElement %s %s:" % (tag, attrs)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]157
158 def endElement(self, tag):
159 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]160 log = log + "endElement %s:" % (tag)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]161
162 def characters(self, data):
163 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]164 log = log + "characters: %s:" % (data)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]165
166 def warning(self, msg):
167 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]168 log = log + "warning: %s:" % (msg)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]169
170 def error(self, msg):
171 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]172 log = log + "error: %s:" % (msg)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]173
174 def fatalError(self, msg):
175 global log
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]176 log = log + "fatalError: %s:" % (msg)
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]177
178handler = callback()
179
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]180ctxt = libxml2.createPushParser(handler, "&lt;foo", 4, "test.xml")
181chunk = " url='tst'&gt;b"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]182ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 0)
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]183chunk = "ar&lt;/foo&gt;"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]184ctxt.parseChunk(chunk, len(chunk), 1)
185
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]186reference = "startDocument:startElement foo {'url': 'tst'}:" + \
187 "characters: bar:endElement foo:endDocument:"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]188if log != reference:
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]189 print "Error got: %s" % log
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]190 print "Expected: %s" % reference</pre><p>The key object in that test is the handler, it provides a number of entry
191points which can be called by the parser as it makes progresses to indicate
192the information set obtained. The full set of callback is larger than what
193the callback class in that specific example implements (see the SAX
194definition for a complete list). The wrapper will only call those supplied by
195the object when activated. The startElement receives the names of the element
196and a dictionary containing the attributes carried by this element.</p><p>Also note that the reference string generated from the callback shows a
197single character call even though the string "bar" is passed to the parser
198from 2 different call to parseChunk()</p><h3>xpath.py:</h3><p>This is a basic test of XPath wrappers support</p><pre>import libxml2
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]199
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]200doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]201ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext()
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]202res = ctxt.xpathEval("//*")
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]203if len(res) != 2:
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]204 print "xpath query: wrong node set size"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]205 sys.exit(1)
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]206if res[0].name != "doc" or res[1].name != "foo":
207 print "xpath query: wrong node set value"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]208 sys.exit(1)
209doc.freeDoc()
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]210ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre><p>This test parses a file, then create an XPath context to evaluate XPath
211expression on it. The xpathEval() method execute an XPath query and returns
212the result mapped in a Python way. String and numbers are natively converted,
213and node sets are returned as a tuple of libxml2 Python nodes wrappers. Like
214the document, the XPath context need to be freed explicitly, also not that
215the result of the XPath query may point back to the document tree and hence
216the document must be freed after the result of the query is used.</p><h3>xpathext.py:</h3><p>This test shows how to extend the XPath engine with functions written in
217python:</p><pre>import libxml2
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]218
219def foo(ctx, x):
220 return x + 1
221
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]222doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]223ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext()
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]224libxml2.registerXPathFunction(ctxt._o, "foo", None, foo)
225res = ctxt.xpathEval("foo(1)")
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]226if res != 2:
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]227 print "xpath extension failure"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]228doc.freeDoc()
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]229ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre><p>Note how the extension function is registered with the context (but that
230part is not yet finalized, this may change slightly in the future).</p><h3>tstxpath.py:</h3><p>This test is similar to the previous one but shows how the extension
231function can access the XPath evaluation context:</p><pre>def foo(ctx, x):
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]232 global called
233
234 #
235 # test that access to the XPath evaluation contexts
236 #
237 pctxt = libxml2.xpathParserContext(_obj=ctx)
238 ctxt = pctxt.context()
239 called = ctxt.function()
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]240 return x + 1</pre><p>All the interfaces around the XPath parser(or rather evaluation) context
241are not finalized, but it should be sufficient to do contextual work at the
242evaluation point.</p><h3>Memory debugging:</h3><p>last but not least, all tests starts with the following prologue:</p><pre>#memory debug specific
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]243libxml2.debugMemory(1)</pre><p>and ends with the following epilogue:</p><pre>#memory debug specific
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]244libxml2.cleanupParser()
245if libxml2.debugMemory(1) == 0:
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]246 print "OK"
Daniel Veillard6dbcaf82002-02-20 14:37:47 +0000[diff] [blame]247else:
Daniel Veillard024f1992003-12-10 16:43:49 +0000[diff] [blame]248 print "Memory leak %d bytes" % (libxml2.debugMemory(1))
Daniel Veillardf781dba2006-06-09 13:34:49 +0000[diff] [blame]249 libxml2.dumpMemory()</pre><p>Those activate the memory debugging interface of libxml2 where all
250allocated block in the library are tracked. The prologue then cleans up the
251library state and checks that all allocated memory has been freed. If not it
252calls dumpMemory() which saves that list in a <code>.memdump</code> file.</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>