wx.xml.XmlDocument¶

This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.

wx.xml.XmlDocument internally uses the expat library which comes with wxWidgets to parse the given stream.

A simple example of using XML classes is:

def ScanDocument():

    doc = wx.xml.XmlDocument()
    if not doc.Load("myfile.xml"):
        return False

    # start processing the XML file
    if doc.GetRoot().GetName() != "myroot-node":
        return False

    # examine prologue
    prolog = doc.GetDocumentNode().GetChildren()
    while prolog:

        if prolog.GetType() == wx.xml.XML_PI_NODE and prolog.GetName() == "target":

            # process Process Instruction contents
            pi = prolog.GetContent()

            # Other code here...

    child = doc.GetRoot().GetChildren()
    while child:

        if child.GetName() == "tag1":

            # process text enclosed by tag1/tag1
            content = child.GetNodeContent()

            # Other code here...

            # process attributes of tag1
            attrvalue1 = child.GetAttribute("attr1", "default-value")
            attrvalue2 = child.GetAttribute("attr2", "default-value")

        elif child.GetName() == "tag2":

            # process tag2 ...
            attrvalue3 = child.GetAttribute("attr3", "default-value")


        child = child.GetNext()

Note that if you want to preserve the original formatting of the loaded file including whitespaces and indentation, you need to turn off whitespace-only textnode removal and automatic indentation:

doc = wx.xml.XmlDocument()
doc.Load("myfile.xml", "UTF-8", wx.xml.XMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES)

# myfile2.xml will be identical to myfile.xml saving it self way:
doc.Save("myfile2.xml", wx.xml.XML_NO_INDENTATION)

Using default parameters, you will get a reformatted document which in general is different from the original loaded content:

doc = wx.xml.XmlDocument()
doc.Load("myfile.xml")
doc.Save("myfile2.xml")  # myfile2.xml != myfile.xml

Class Hierarchy¶

Inheritance diagram for class XmlDocument:

Methods Summary¶

`__init__`	Default constructor.
`AppendToProlog`	Appends a Process Instruction or Comment node to the document prologue.
`DetachDocumentNode`	Detaches the document node and returns it.
`DetachRoot`	Detaches the root entity node and returns it.
`GetDocumentNode`	Returns the document node of the document.
`GetFileEncoding`	Returns encoding of document (may be empty).
`GetLibraryVersionInfo`	Get expat library version information.
`GetRoot`	Returns the root element node of the document.
`GetVersion`	Returns the version of document.
`IsOk`	Returns `True` if the document has been loaded successfully.
`Load`	Parses filename as an xml document and loads its data.
`Save`	Saves `XML` tree creating a file named with given string.
`SetDocumentNode`	Sets the document node of this document.
`SetFileEncoding`	Sets the encoding of the file which will be used to save the document.
`SetRoot`	Sets the root element node of this document.
`SetVersion`	Sets the version of the `XML` file which will be used to save the document.

Properties Summary¶

`DocumentNode`	See `GetDocumentNode` and `SetDocumentNode`
`FileEncoding`	See `GetFileEncoding` and `SetFileEncoding`
`Root`	See `GetRoot` and `SetRoot`
`Version`	See `GetVersion` and `SetVersion`

Class API¶

class wx.xml.XmlDocument(Object)¶

Possible constructors:

XmlDocument()

XmlDocument(doc)

XmlDocument(filename, encoding="UTF-8")

XmlDocument(stream, encoding="UTF-8")

This class holds XML data/document as parsed by XML parser in the root node.

Methods¶

__init__(self, *args, **kw)¶

Overloaded Implementations:

__init__ (self)

Default constructor.

__init__ (self, doc)

Copy constructor.

Deep copies all the XML tree of the given document.

Parameters: doc (wx.xml.XmlDocument) –

__init__ (self, filename, encoding=”UTF-8”)

Loads the given filename using the given encoding.

See Load .

Parameters

filename (string) –
encoding (string) –

__init__ (self, stream, encoding=”UTF-8”)

Loads the XML document from given stream using the given encoding.

See Load .

Parameters

stream (wx.InputStream) –
encoding (string) –

AppendToProlog(self, node)¶

Appends a Process Instruction or Comment node to the document prologue.

Calling this function will create a prologue or attach the node to the end of an existing prologue.

Parameters: node (wx.xml.XmlNode) –

New in version 2.9.2.

DetachDocumentNode(self)¶

Detaches the document node and returns it.

The document node will be set to None and thus IsOk will return False after calling this function.

Note that the caller is responsible for deleting the returned node in order to avoid memory leaks.

Return type: wx.xml.XmlNode

New in version 2.9.2.

DetachRoot(self)¶

Detaches the root entity node and returns it.

After calling this function, the document node will remain together with any prologue nodes, but IsOk will return False since the root entity will be missing.

Note that the caller is responsible for deleting the returned node in order to avoid memory leaks.