XML

class compas.files.XML[source]

Bases: object

Class for working with XML files.

This class simplifies reading XML files and strings across different Python implementations.

Attributes:

readercompas.files.XMLReader, read-only: Reader used to process the XML file or string.
writerXMLWriter, read-only: Writer used to process the XML object to a file or string.
filepathstr: The path to the XML file.
rootxml.etree.ElementTree.Element: Root element of the XML tree.

Examples

>>> from compas.files import XML
>>> xml = XML.from_string("<Main><Title>Test</Title></Main>")
>>> xml.root.tag
'Main'

Methods

`from_file`	Read XML from a file path or file-like object.
`from_string`	Read XML from a string.
`read`	Read XML from a file path or file-like object, stored in the attribute `filepath`.
`to_file`	Writes the string representation of this XML instance, including all sub-elements, to the file path in the associated XML object.
`to_string`	Generate a string representation of this XML instance, including all sub-elements.
`write`	Writes the string representation of this XML instance, including all sub-elements, to the file path in the associated XML object.