Xul documentation

Xul: XML [1] utilities written in Python. Current release: 3.1.2

Xul scripts

Xul is a set of XML scripts written in Python. The supported XML sources are documented in XML source.

Scripts

• ppx – Pretty Print XML
  • Examples
  • Options
  • White Space
  • Output options
• xp – Select nodes with XPath
  • Examples
  • Options
  • Searching XML files
  • Namespaces in XML
  • Output options
  • Other options
• validate – Validate XML
  • Examples
  • Options
  • XML schema languages
  • Validation Errors
  • Searching XML files
• transform – Transform XML
  • Examples
  • Options
  • Save result to file
  • Output options

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.

Source

The source can be found on GitHub.

Other

• XML source

• Changelog

• Xul index

Footnotes

[1]

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0