Class Hierarchy

• xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler: Interface for receiving logical document content events.
  • lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler: Build an lxml ElementTree from SAX events.
• xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree
• lxml.tests.common_imports.LargeFileLike
• lxml._elementpath.Path
• xml.etree.ElementTree.QName
• lxml.tests.common_imports.SillyFileLike
• xml.etree.ElementTree.TreeBuilder
• xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLTreeBuilder
• xml.etree.ElementTree._ElementInterface
• xml.etree.ElementTree._SimpleElementPath
• xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse
• object: The most base type
  • exceptions.BaseException: Common base class for all exceptions
    • exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
      • lxml.etree.Error
        • lxml.sax.LxmlError: Main exception base class for lxml.
          • lxml.etree.LxmlSyntaxError: Base class for all syntax errors.
            • lxml.ElementInclude.FatalIncludeError
          • lxml.sax.SaxError: General SAX error.
      • exceptions.StandardError: Base class for all standard Python exceptions that do not represent interpreter exiting.
        • exceptions.AssertionError: Assertion failed.
        • exceptions.SyntaxError: Invalid syntax.
          • lxml.etree.LxmlSyntaxError: Base class for all syntax errors.
            • lxml.ElementInclude.FatalIncludeError
  • lxml.etree.ElementClassLookup: Superclass of Element class lookups.
    • lxml.etree.FallbackElementClassLookup: Superclass of Element class lookups with additional fallback.
      • lxml.pyclasslookup.PythonElementClassLookup: Element class lookup based on a subclass method.
  • lxml.builder.ElementMaker: Element generator factory.
  • lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler: Build an lxml ElementTree from SAX events.
  • lxml.sax.ElementTreeProducer: Produces SAX events for an element and children.
  • unittest.TestCase: A class whose instances are single test cases.
    • lxml.tests.test_errors.ErrorTestCase
    • lxml.tests.common_imports.HelperTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_classlookup.ClassLookupTestCase: Test cases for lxml.elementlib.classlookup
      • lxml.tests.test_etree.ETreeC14NTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_dtd.ETreeDtdTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_xpathevaluator.ETreeETXPathClassTestCase: Tests for the ETXPath class
      • lxml.tests.test_nsclasses.ETreeNamespaceClassesTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_etree.ETreeOnlyTestCase: Tests only for etree, not ElementTree
      • lxml.tests.test_relaxng.ETreeRelaxNGTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_sax.ETreeSaxTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ETreeTestCaseBase
        • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ETreeTestCase
        • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ElementTreeTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_xmlschema.ETreeXMLSchemaTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_xpathevaluator.ETreeXPathClassTestCase: Tests for the XPath class
      • lxml.tests.test_xpathevaluator.ETreeXPathTestCase: XPath tests etree
      • lxml.tests.test_xslt.ETreeXSLTTestCase: XPath tests etree
      • lxml.tests.test_htmlparser.HtmlParserTestCase: HTML parser test cases
      • lxml.tests.test_objectify.ObjectifyTestCase: Test cases for lxml.objectify
      • lxml.tests.test_pyclasslookup.PyClassLookupTestCase: Test cases for the lxml.pyclasslookup class lookup mechanism.
      • lxml.tests.test_etree.XIncludeTestCase
        • lxml.tests.test_etree.ETreeXIncludeTestCase
        • lxml.tests.test_etree.ElementIncludeTestCase
    • lxml.tests.test_io.IOTestCaseBase: (c)ElementTree compatibility for IO functions/methods
      • lxml.tests.test_io.ETreeIOTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_io.ElementTreeIOTestCase
    • lxml.tests.test_unicode.UnicodeTestCase
  • lxml.etree._Element: Element class.
    • lxml.etree.ElementBase: All custom Element classes must inherit from this one.
      • lxml.tests.test_nsclasses.ETreeNamespaceClassesTestCase.bluff_class
      • lxml.tests.test_nsclasses.ETreeNamespaceClassesTestCase.default_class
      • lxml.tests.test_nsclasses.ETreeNamespaceClassesTestCase.maeh_class
• lxml._elementpath.xpath_descendant_or_self