Package lxml :: Module etree :: Class TreeBuilder

Class TreeBuilder

      object --+    
               |    
_SaxParserTarget --+
                   |
                  TreeBuilder

Parser target that builds a tree.

The final tree is returned by the ``close()`` method.

Instance Methods

__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

a new object with type S, a subtype of T

__new__(T, S, ...)

close(...)
Flushes the builder buffers, and returns the toplevel document element.

comment(...)

data(...)
Adds text to the current element.

end(...)
Closes the current element.

pi(...)

start(...)
Opens a new element.

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __str__

Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

Adds text to the current element. The value should be either an 8-bit string containing ASCII text, or a Unicode string.