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Why lxml?
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Installing lxml
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Building lxml from dev sources
Using lxml with python-libxml2
Source builds on MS Windows
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Benchmarks and Speed
General notes
How to read the timings
Parsing and Serialising
The ElementTree API
XPath
A longer example
lxml.objectify
ElementTree compatibility of lxml.etree
lxml FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions
Installation
Contributing
Bugs
Threading
Parsing and Serialisation
XPath and Document Traversal
Developing with lxml
The lxml.etree Tutorial
The Element class
The ElementTree class
Parsing from strings and files
Namespaces
The E-factory
ElementPath
API reference
APIs specific to lxml.etree
lxml.etree
Other Element APIs
Trees and Documents
Iteration
Error handling on exceptions
Error logging
Serialisation
Incremental XML generation
CDATA
XInclude and ElementInclude
Parsing XML and HTML with lxml
Parsers
The target parser interface
The feed parser interface
Incremental event parsing
iterparse and iterwalk
Python unicode strings
Validation with lxml
Validation at parse time
DTD
RelaxNG
XMLSchema
Schematron
(Pre-ISO-Schematron)
XPath and XSLT with lxml
XPath
XSLT
lxml.objectify
The lxml.objectify API
Asserting a Schema
ObjectPath
Python data types
How data types are matched
What is different from lxml.etree?
lxml.html
Parsing HTML
HTML Element Methods
Running HTML doctests
Creating HTML with the E-factory
Working with links
Forms
HTML Diff
Examples
lxml.cssselect
The CSSSelector class
The cssselect method
Supported Selectors
Namespaces
BeautifulSoup Parser
Parsing with the soupparser
Entity handling
Using soupparser as a fallback
Using only the encoding detection
html5lib Parser
Differences to regular HTML parsing
Function Reference
Extending lxml
Document loading and URL resolving
XML Catalogs
URI Resolvers
Document loading in context
I/O access control in XSLT
Python extensions for XPath and XSLT
XPath Extension functions
XSLT extension elements
Using custom Element classes in lxml
Background on Element proxies
Element initialization
Setting up a class lookup scheme
Generating XML with custom classes
Implementing namespaces
Sax support
Building a tree from SAX events
Producing SAX events from an ElementTree or Element
Interfacing with pulldom/minidom
The public C-API of lxml.etree
Passing generated trees through Python
Writing external modules in Cython
Writing external modules in C
Developing lxml
How to build lxml from source
Cython
Github, git and hg
Building the sources
Running the tests and reporting errors
Building an egg or wheel
Building lxml on MacOS-X
Static linking on Windows
Building Debian packages from SVN sources
How to read the source of lxml
What is Cython?
Where to start?
lxml.etree
