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maintains <ahref="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
<ahref="libxml2-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 <ahref="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxml2-python">libxml2-python
RPM</a> (and if needed the <ahref="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libxslt-python">libxslt-python
RPM</a>).</li>
<li>Otherwise use the <ahref="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
excerpts from those tests:</p><h3>tst.py:</h3><p>This is a basic test of the file interface and DOM navigation:</p><pre>import libxml2, sys
ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre><p>This test parses a file, then create an XPath context to evaluate XPath
expression on it. The xpathEval() method execute an XPath query and returns
the result mapped in a Python way. String and numbers are natively converted,
and node sets are returned as a tuple of libxml2 Python nodes wrappers. Like
the document, the XPath context need to be freed explicitly, also not that
the result of the XPath query may point back to the document tree and hence
the document must be freed after the result of the query is used.</p><h3>xpathext.py:</h3><p>This test shows how to extend the XPath engine with functions written in
ctxt.xpathFreeContext()</pre><p>Note how the extension function is registered with the context (but that
part is not yet finalized, this may change slightly in the future).</p><h3>tstxpath.py:</h3><p>This test is similar to the previous one but shows how the extension
function can access the XPath evaluation context:</p><pre>def foo(ctx, x):
libxml2.dumpMemory()</pre><p>Those activate the memory debugging interface of libxml2 where all
allocated block in the library are tracked. The prologue then cleans up the
library state and checks that all allocated memory has been freed. If not it
calls dumpMemory() which saves that list in a <code>.memdump</code> file.</p><p><ahref="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>
