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Please contact the <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-bindings">xml-bindings@gnome.org</a> -(<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml-bindings/">archives</a>) in -order to get updates to this list or to discuss the specific topic of libxml2 -or libxslt wrappers or bindings:</p><ul> - <li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-March/msg00014.html">Matt - Sergeant</a> developped <a href="http://axkit.org/download/">XML::LibXML - and XML::LibXSLT</a>, Perl wrappers for libxml2/libxslt as part of the <a href="http://axkit.com/">AxKit XML application server</a></li> - <li><a href="mailto:dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com">Dave Kuhlman</a> provides and - earlier version of the libxml/libxslt <a href="http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman">wrappers for Python</a></li> - <li>Petr Kozelka provides <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas">Pascal units to glue - libxml2</a> with Kylix, Delphi and other Pascal compilers</li> - <li>Wai-Sun "Squidster" Chia provides <a href="http://www.rubycolor.org/arc/redist/">bindings for Ruby</a> and - libxml2 bindings are also available in Ruby through the <a href="http://libgdome-ruby.berlios.de/">libgdome-ruby</a> module - maintained by Tobias Peters.</li> - <li>Steve Ball and contributors maintains <a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">libxml2 and libxslt bindings for - Tcl</a></li> - <li><a href="mailto:xmlwrapp@pmade.org">Peter Jones</a> maintains C++ - bindings for libxslt within <a href="http://pmade.org/pjones/software/xmlwrapp/">xmlwrapp</a></li> - <li><a href="phillim2@comcast.net">Mike Phillips</a> provides a module - using <a href="http://siasl.dyndns.org/projects/projects.html">libxslt - for PHP</a>.</li> - <li><a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx/">LibxmlJ</a> is - an effort to create a 100% JAXP-compatible Java wrapper for libxml2 and - libxslt as part of GNU ClasspathX project.</li> - <li>Patrick McPhee provides Rexx bindings fof libxml2 and libxslt, look for - <a href="http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/software.html">RexxXML</a>.</li> - <li><a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/xml_suite.html">Satimage</a> - provides <a href="http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/downloads_osaxen.html">XMLLib - osax</a>. This is an osax for Mac OS X with a set of commands to - implement in AppleScript the XML DOM, XPATH and XSLT.</li> -</ul><p>The libxslt Python module depends on the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/python.html">libxml2 Python</a> module.</p><p>The distribution includes a set of Python bindings, which are guaranteed to -be maintained as part of the library in the future, though the Python -interface have not yet reached the completeness of the C API.</p><p><a href="mailto:stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com">Stéphane Bidoul</a> -maintains <a href="http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/">a Windows port -of the Python bindings</a>.</p><p>Note to people interested in building bindings, the API is formalized as -<a href="libxslt-api.xml">an XML API description file</a> which allows to -automate a large part of the Python bindings, this includes function -descriptions, enums, structures, typedefs, etc... The Python script used to -build the bindings is python/generator.py in the source distribution.</p><p>To install the Python bindings there are 2 options:</p><ul> - <li>If you use an RPM based distribution, simply install the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python - RPM</a> and the <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python - RPM</a>.</li> - <li>Otherwise use the <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/python/">libxml2-python - module distribution</a> corresponding to your installed version of - libxml2 and libxslt. Note that to install it you will need both libxml2 - and libxslt installed and run "python setup.py build install" in the - module tree.</li> -</ul><p>The distribution includes a set of examples and regression tests for the -python bindings in the <code>python/tests</code> directory. Here are some -excepts from those tests:</p><h3>basic.py:</h3><p>This is a basic test of XSLT interfaces: loading a stylesheet and a -document, transforming the document and saving the result.</p><pre>import libxml2 -import libxslt - -styledoc = libxml2.parseFile("test.xsl") -style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc) -doc = libxml2.parseFile("test.xml") -result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, None) -style.saveResultToFilename("foo", result, 0) -style.freeStylesheet() -doc.freeDoc() -result.freeDoc()</pre><p>The Python module is called libxslt, you will also need the libxml2 module -for the operations on XML trees. Let's have a look at the objects manipulated -in that example and how is the processing done:</p><ul> - <li><code>styledoc</code> : is a libxml2 document tree. It is obtained by - parsing the XML file "test.xsl" containing the stylesheet.</li> - <li><code>style</code> : this is a precompiled stylesheet ready to be used - by the following transformations (note the plural form, multiple - transformations can resuse the same stylesheet).</li> - <li><code>doc</code> : this is the document to apply the transformation to. - In this case it is simply generated by parsing it from a file but any - other processing is possible as long as one get a libxml2 Doc. Note that - HTML tree are suitable for XSLT processing in libxslt. This is actually - how this page is generated !</li> - <li><code>result</code> : this is a document generated by applying the - stylesheet to the document. Note that some of the stylesheet information - may be related to the serialization of that document and as in this - example a specific saveResultToFilename() method of the stylesheet should - be used to save it to a file (in that case to "foo").</li> -</ul><p>Also note the need to explicitely deallocate documents with freeDoc() -except for the stylesheet document which is freed when its compiled form is -garbage collected.</p><h3>extfunc.py:</h3><p>This one is a far more complex test. It shows how to modify the behaviour -of an XSLT transformation by passing parameters and how to extend the XSLT -engine with functions defined in python:</p><pre>import libxml2 -import libxslt -import string - -nodeName = None -def f(ctx, str): - global nodeName - - # - # Small check to verify the context is correcly accessed - # - try: - pctxt = libxslt.xpathParserContext(_obj=ctx) - ctxt = pctxt.context() - tctxt = ctxt.transformContext() - nodeName = tctxt.insertNode().name - except: - pass - - return string.upper(str) - -libxslt.registerExtModuleFunction("foo", "http://example.com/foo", f)</pre><p>This code defines and register an extension function. Note that the -function can be bound to any name (foo) and how the binding is also -associated to a namespace name "http://example.com/foo". From an XSLT point -of view the function just returns an upper case version of the string passed -as a parameter. But the first part of the function also read some contextual -information from the current XSLT processing environement, in that case it -looks for the current insertion node in the resulting output (either the -resulting document or the Result Value Tree being generated), and saves it to -a global variable for checking that the access actually worked.</p><p>For more information on the xpathParserContext and transformContext -objects check the <a href="internals.html">libray internals description</a>. -The pctxt is actually an object from a class derived from the -libxml2.xpathParserContext() with just a couple more properties including the -possibility to look up the XSLT transformation context from the XPath -context.</p><pre>styledoc = libxml2.parseDoc(""" -<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' - xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform' - xmlns:foo='http://example.com/foo' - xsl:exclude-result-prefixes='foo'> - - <xsl:param name='bar'>failure</xsl:param> - <xsl:template match='/'> - <article><xsl:value-of select='foo:foo($bar)'/></article> - </xsl:template> -</xsl:stylesheet> -""")</pre><p>Here is a simple example of how to read an XML document from a python -string with libxml2. Note how this stylesheet:</p><ul> - <li>Uses a global parameter <code>bar</code></li> - <li>Reference the extension function f</li> - <li>how the Namespace name "http://example.com/foo" has to be bound to a - prefix</li> - <li>how that prefix is excluded from the output</li> - <li>how the function is called from the select</li> -</ul><pre>style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc) -doc = libxml2.parseDoc("<doc/>") -result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, { "bar": "'success'" }) -style.freeStylesheet() -doc.freeDoc()</pre><p>that part is identical, to the basic example except that the -transformation is passed a dictionary of parameters. Note that the string -passed "success" had to be quoted, otherwise it is interpreted as an XPath -query for the childs of root named "success".</p><pre>root = result.children -if root.name != "article": - print "Unexpected root node name" - sys.exit(1) -if root.content != "SUCCESS": - print "Unexpected root node content, extension function failed" - sys.exit(1) -if nodeName != 'article': - print "The function callback failed to access its context" - sys.exit(1) - -result.freeDoc()</pre><p>That part just verifies that the transformation worked, that the parameter -got properly passed to the engine, that the function f() got called and that -it properly accessed the context to find the name of the insertion node.</p><h3>pyxsltproc.py:</h3><p>this module is a bit too long to be described there but it is basically a -rewrite of the xsltproc command line interface of libxslt in Python. It -provides nearly all the functionalities of xsltproc and can be used as a base -module to write Python customized XSLT processors. One of the thing to notice -are:</p><pre>libxml2.lineNumbersDefault(1) -libxml2.substituteEntitiesDefault(1)</pre><p>those two calls in the main() function are needed to force the libxml2 -processor to generate DOM trees compliant with the XPath data model.</p><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html> |