BaseOxmlElement

Effective base class for all custom element classes.

Adds standardized behavior to all classes in one place.

Attributes

attributexmlstr

XML string for this element, suitable for testing purposes.

Pretty printed for readability and without an XML declaration at the top.

funcfirst_child_found_in(*tagnames: str) -> _Element | None

First child with tag in tagnames, or None if not found.

paramtagnamesstr

= ()

Returns

lxml.etree._Element | None

funcinsert_element_before(elm: ElementBase, *tagnames: str)

paramelmElementBase

paramtagnamesstr

= ()

funcremove_all(*tagnames: str) -> None

Remove child elements with tagname (e.g. "a:p") in tagnames.

paramtagnamesstr

= ()

Returns

None

funcxpath(xpath_str: str) -> Any

Override of lxml _Element.xpath() method.

Provides standard Open XML namespace mapping (nsmap) in centralized location.

paramxpath_strstr

Returns

typing.Any