Xul 3.1.2
XML (XPath, XSD, XSLT) Utilities
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: dtd, relax ng, rng, xml, xml schema, xpath, xsd, xslt

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Xul -- XML Utilities
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Xul scripts
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Xul is a set of XML scripts written in Python.

- ``ppx``: pretty print XML
- ``xp``: select XML nodes with XPath
- ``transform``: transform XML with XSLT
- ``validate``: validate XML with XSD, DTD or RELAX NG

Installation
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Xul command line scripts can be installed with pip:

.. code:: text

        $ pip install Xul

Install Pygments_ for XML syntax highlighting (optional).

.. code:: text

        $ pip install Xul[syntax]

Dependencies
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Xul uses the excellent lxml_ XML toolkit, a Pythonic binding for the C libraries
libxml2_ and libxslt_.

Documentation
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Xul documentation can be found on `Read The Docs`_.

Options
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List the command-line options of a Xul script with ``--help``.
For example:

.. code-block:: console

   $ xp --help

   usage: xp [-h] [-V] [-l | -L] [-d DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX] [-e] [-q] [-c] [-p] [-r] [-m] xpath_expr [xml_source ...]

   Select nodes in an XML source with an XPath expression.

   positional arguments:
     xpath_expr            XPath expression
     xml_source            XML source (file, <stdin>, http://...)

   options:
     -h, --help            show this help message and exit
     -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
     -m, --method          use ElementTree.xpath method instead of XPath class

   file hit options:
     output filenames to standard output

     -l, -f, --files-with-hits
                           only names of files with a result that is not false and not NaN
                           are written to standard output
     -L, -F, --files-without-hits
                           only names of files with a false or NaN result, or without a result,
                           are written to standard output

   namespace options:
     -d DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX, --default-prefix DEFAULT_NS_PREFIX
                           set the prefix for the default namespace in XPath [default: 'd']
     -e, --exslt           add EXSLT XML namespaces
     -q, --quiet           don't print XML source namespaces

   output options:
     -c, --count           only a count of the result nodes is printed
     -p, --pretty-element  pretty print the result element
     -r, --result-xpath    also print the XPath expression of the result element (or its parent)


W3C standards
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- `Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/>`_
- `XML Schema 1.1 <https://www.w3.org/XML/Schema>`_
- `XSL Transformations (XSLT) 1.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-10/>`_
- `XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-10/>`_
- `Namespaces in XML 1.0 <https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/>`_

Related
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- `Extensions to XSLT (EXSLT) <https://exslt.github.io/>`_
- `RELAX NG <https://relaxng.org/>`_


.. _Read The Docs: https://xul.readthedocs.io/
.. _lxml: https://lxml.de/
.. _libxml2: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/wikis/
.. _libxslt: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/-/wikis/
.. _Pygments: https://pygments.org/