Module Hierarchy

• lxml
  • builder
  • cssselect
  • doctestcompare: lxml-based doctest output comparison.
  • ElementInclude
  • etree
  • html
    • defs
  • htmlbuilder: Usage:
  • objectify
  • pyclasslookup
  • sax
  • tests
    • common_imports
    • test_classlookup: Tests specific to the extended etree API
    • test_dtd: Test cases related to DTD parsing and validation
    • test_elementtree: Tests for the ElementTree API
    • test_errors
    • test_etree: Tests specific to the extended etree API
    • test_htmlparser: HTML parser test cases for etree
    • test_io: IO test cases that apply to both etree and ElementTree
    • test_nsclasses: Test cases related to namespace implementation classes and the namespace registry mechanism
    • test_objectify: Tests specific to the lxml.objectify API
    • test_pyclasslookup: Tests specific to the Python based class lookup.
    • test_relaxng: Test cases related to RelaxNG parsing and validation
    • test_sax: Test cases related to SAX I/O
    • test_schematron: Test cases related to Schematron parsing and validation
    • test_unicode
    • test_xmlschema: Test cases related to XML Schema parsing and validation
    • test_xpathevaluator: Test cases related to XPath evaluation and the XPath class
    • test_xslt: Test cases related to XSLT processing

Class Hierarchy

• UserDict.DictMixin
• __builtin__.object: The most base type
  • exceptions.BaseException: Common base class for all exceptions
    • exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
      • None.Error
        • None.LxmlError: Main exception base class for lxml.
          • None.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.LookupError: Base class for lookup errors.
        • exceptions.RuntimeError: Unspecified run-time error.
          • lxml.cssselect.ExpressionError
        • exceptions.SyntaxError: Invalid syntax.
          • None.LxmlSyntaxError: Base class for all syntax errors.
            • lxml.ElementInclude.FatalIncludeError
          • lxml.cssselect.SelectorSyntaxError
  • __builtin__.basestring: Type basestring cannot be instantiated; it is the base for str and unicode.
    • __builtin__.unicode: unicode(string [, encoding[, errors]]) -> object
  • lxml.etree.DocInfo: Document information provided by parser and DTD.
  • lxml.etree.ElementClassLookup: Superclass of Element class lookups.
    • lxml.etree.ElementDefaultClassLookup: Element class lookup scheme that always returns the default Element class.
    • lxml.etree.FallbackElementClassLookup: Superclass of Element class lookups with additional fallback.
      • lxml.etree.AttributeBasedElementClassLookup: Checks an attribute of an Element and looks up the value in a class dictionary.
      • lxml.etree.CustomElementClassLookup: Element class lookup based on a subclass method.
      • lxml.etree.ElementNamespaceClassLookup: Element class lookup scheme that searches the Element class in the Namespace registry.
      • lxml.etree.ParserBasedElementClassLookup: Element class lookup based on the XML parser.
    • lxml.objectify.ObjectifyElementClassLookup: Element class lookup method that uses the objectify classes.
  • 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.
  • lxml.etree.iterwalk: A tree walker that generates events from an existing tree as if it was parsing XML data with ``iterparse()``.
  • __builtin__.list: list() -> new list list(sequence) -> new list initialized from sequence's items
  • lxml.objectify.ObjectPath: Immutable object that represents a compiled object path.
  • lxml.objectify.PyType: User defined type.
  • lxml.etree.QName: QName wrapper.
  • lxml.etree.Resolver: This is the base class of all resolvers.
  • 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_schematron.ETreeSchematronTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ETreeTestCaseBase
        • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ElementTreeTestCase
        • lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ETreeTestCase
      • 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.HtmlParserTestCaseBase: 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.ElementIncludeTestCase
        • lxml.tests.test_etree.ETreeXIncludeTestCase
    • lxml.tests.test_io.IOTestCaseBase: (c)ElementTree compatibility for IO functions/methods
      • lxml.tests.test_io.ElementTreeIOTestCase
      • lxml.tests.test_io.ETreeIOTestCase
    • lxml.tests.test_unicode.UnicodeTestCase
  • __builtin__.type: type(object) -> the object's type type(name, bases, dict) -> a new type
  • lxml.etree.XSLT: Turn a document into an XSLT object.
  • lxml.etree.XSLTAccessControl: Access control for XSLT: reading/writing files, directories and network I/O.
• difflib.SequenceMatcher: SequenceMatcher is a flexible class for comparing pairs of sequences of any type, so long as the sequence elements are hashable.
• doctest.OutputChecker: A class used to check the whether the actual output from a doctest example matches the expected output.
  • lxml.doctestcompare.LXMLOutputChecker
    • lxml.doctestcompare.LHTMLOutputChecker
• lxml.tests.common_imports.LargeFileLike
• lxml.tests.common_imports.SillyFileLike