Xul documentation

XML [1] utilities written in Python.

Current version: 2.5.1

Xul scripts

Supported XML sources are documented in XML source.

• ppx – Pretty Print XML
  • White Space
  • Options
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • XML declaration
  • Examples
• xp – Select nodes with XPath
  • XPath expression
  • Options
  • Print result’s XPath
  • Namespaces in XML
  • Extensions to XSLT
  • Pretty print element result
  • Print file names
  • xpath method
• validate – Validate XML
  • XSD
  • DTD
  • RELAX NG
  • Options
  • XML Validation
  • Validation Errors
  • XSD Validation
  • Print file names
• transform – Transform XML
  • Options
  • XSL output
  • Save transformation result to file
  • XML declaration

Other

• XML source
  • File
  • Pipe
  • URL
• Changelog
  • 2.5.1 (2024-12-26)
  • 2.5.0 (2024-12-25)
  • 2.4.2 (2024-12-15)
  • 2.4.1 (2022-02-14)
  • 2.4.0 (2022-02-14)
  • 2.3.0 (2021-01-28)
  • 2.2.1 (2021-01-14)
  • 2.2.0 (2020-10-07)
  • 2.1.0 (2020-09-09)
  • 2.0.3 (2020-06-10)
  • 2.0.2 (2020-05-31)
  • 2.0.1 (2020-03-08)
  • 2.0.0 (2020-03-07)

Installing

Xul command-line scripts can be installed with pip:

pip install Xul

Install Xul with Pygments for XML syntax highlighting.

pip install Xul[syntax]

Dependencies

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

Changelog

Xul Changelog.

Source

The source can be found on GitHub.

Indices and search

• Index

• Search Page

Footnotes

[1]

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0