MicroXML component of Amara3 project, which contains a variety of data processing tools. This module adds XML support based on the MicroXML spec.
Uche Ogbuji < uche@ogbuji.net >
Requires Python 3.5+. Use pip
pip install amara3-xml
A good way to experiment with amara3-xml is the microx command line.
Main focus is MicroXML, rather than full XML. However because most of the XML-like data you'll be dealing with is XML 1.0, Amara provides capabilities to parse legacy XML (and even HTML) and reduce it to MicroXML. In many cases the biggest implication of this is that namespace information is stripped. As long as you know what you're doing you can get pretty far by ignoring this, but make sure you know what you're doing.
from amara3.uxml import xml
MONTY_XML = """<monty xmlns="urn:spam:ignored">
<python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python>
<python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python>
</monty>"""
builder = xml.treebuilder()
root = builder.parse(MONTY_XML)
print(root.xml_name) #"monty"
child = next(root.xml_children)
print(child) #First text node: "\n "
child = next(root.xml_children)
print(child.xml_value) #"What do you mean \"bleh\""
print(child.xml_attributes["spam"]) #"eggs"
There are some utilities to make this a bit easier as well.
from amara3.uxml import xml
from amara3.uxml.treeutil import *
MONTY_XML = """<monty xmlns="urn:spam:ignored">
<python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python>
<python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python>
</monty>"""
builder = xml.treebuilder()
root = builder.parse(MONTY_XML)
py1 = next(select_name(root, "python"))
print(py1.xml_value) #"What do you mean \"bleh\""
py2 = next(select_attribute(root, "ministry", "abuse"))
print(py2.xml_value) #"But I was looking for argument"
You can use Amara to parse HTML
from amara3.uxml import html5
import urllib.request
with urllib.request.urlopen('http://uche.ogbuji.net/') as response:
#Element object for <html> wrapper (no explicit document root object in MicroXML)
e = html5.parse(response)
Warning: html5lib is the underlying parser, so unfortunately Python 3.8 support will be broken until we have an upstream fix.
Amara supports building trees from XML, but a common problem in doing this is that large XML files turn into tree objects that consume a great deal of memory. Amara provides treeiter parsers from MicroXML, full XML and HTML5 which allow you to specify an element pattern so that the parse only retrieves a subset of the document at a time.
Here is an example parsing from XML
from amara3.uxml import xmliter
def sink(accumulator):
while True:
e = yield
accumulator.append(e.xml_value)
values = []
ts = xmliter.sender(('a', 'b'), sink(values))
ts.parse('<a xmlns="urn:namespaces:suck"><b>1</b><b>2</b><b>3</b></a>')
print(values)
#['1', '2', '3']
The logical structure you have to use is a bit awkward, because pyexpat, the underlying parser does not have a coroutine-based API.
For this parser the input truly must be MicroXML. Basics:
>>> from amara3.uxml.parser import parse
>>> events = parse('<hello><bold>world</bold></hello>')
>>> for ev in events: print(ev)
...
(<event.start_element: 1>, 'hello', {}, [])
(<event.start_element: 1>, 'bold', {}, ['hello'])
(<event.characters: 3>, 'world')
(<event.end_element: 2>, 'bold', ['hello'])
(<event.end_element: 2>, 'hello', [])
>>>
Or…And now for something completely different!…Incremental parsing.
>>> from amara3.uxml.parser import parsefrags
>>> events = parsefrags(['<hello', '><bold>world</bold></hello>'])
>>> for ev in events: print(ev)
...
(<event.start_element: 1>, 'hello', {}, [])
(<event.start_element: 1>, 'bold', {}, ['hello'])
(<event.characters: 3>, 'world')
(<event.end_element: 2>, 'bold', ['hello'])
(<event.end_element: 2>, 'hello', [])
>>>
Still very early stages of support/testing