XIST – An extensible HTML/XML generator
XIST is an extensible HTML and XML generator. XIST is also a XML parser with a very simple and pythonesque tree API. Every XML element type corresponds to a Python class and these Python classes provide a conversion method to transform the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be considered ‘object oriented XSLT’.
XIST was written as a replacement for the HTML preprocessor HSC, and borrows some features and ideas from it.
It also borrows the basic idea (XML/HTML elements as Python objects) from the
ancient Python modules HTMLgen
and HyperText
.
- XIST examples
- Basic XIST concepts
- Iterating through XIST trees
- Transforming XIST trees
- Advanced topics
- Miscellaneous features
xsc
– XIST core classesns
– Package containing namespaceshtml
– HTML namespacexml
– Global attributes from the XML namespacedocbook
– DocBook 5.0svg
– SVG 1.1abbr
– Abbreviation entitiescode
– Embedding Python code in XMLform
– Form related elementsphp
– PHP processing instructionsjsp
– JSP processing instructionsmeta
– HTML meta informationruby
– W3C Ruby annotationsspecials
– Common useful elementshtmlspecials
– Elements for HTML generationdoc
– Automated documentation generationdetox
– Detox templatestoxic
– Embed PL/SQL in XIST XMLrng
– Relax NGrss091
– RSS 0.91rss20
– RSS 2.0atom
– Atom 1.0struts_html
– Jakarta Struts HTML tagsstruts_config
– Struts configuration files
parse
– Parsing XML/HTMLpresent
– Screen output of XML treessims
– Simple schema validationxfind
– Tree traversal and filteringcss
– CSS related functionsscripts
– XIST related scripts