Xul is a set of XML scripts written in Python. Documentation can be found on Read The Docs.
ppx: pretty print XMLxp: select nodes in XML sourcetransform: transform XML with XSLTvalidate: validate an XML source
The Xul command line scripts can be installed with pip:
$ pip install Xul
Install Pygments for XML syntax highlighting (optional).
$ pip install Pygments
Xul uses the excellent lxml XML toolkit, a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
List the command-line options of a Xul script with --help.
For example:
$ ppx --help
usage: ppx [-h] [-V] [-n] [-o] [xml_source [xml_source ...]]
Pretty Print XML source in human readable form.
positional arguments:
xml_source XML source (file, <stdin>, http://...)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-n, --no-syntax no syntax highlighting
-o, --omit-declaration
omit the XML declaration
The Xul documentation can be found on Read The Docs.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
- XML Schema 1.0
- XSL Transformations (XSLT) 1.0
- XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0
- Namespaces in XML 1.0