The elementtree.ElementInclude Module

Limited XInclude support for the ElementTree package.

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Default loader. This loader reads an included resource from disk.

href: Resource reference.
parse: Parse mode. Either "xml" or "text".
encoding: Optional text encoding.
Returns:: The expanded resource. If the parse mode is "xml", this is an ElementTree instance. If the parse mode is "text", this is a Unicode string. If the loader fails, it can return None or raise an IOError exception.
Raises IOError:: If the loader fails to load the resource.

FatalIncludeError (class) [#]

Fatal include error.

For more information about this class, see The FatalIncludeError Class.

Expand XInclude directives.

elem: Root element.
loader: Optional resource loader. If omitted, it defaults to default_loader. If given, it should be a callable that implements the same interface as default_loader.
Raises FatalIncludeError:: If the function fails to include a given resource, or if the tree contains malformed XInclude elements.
Raises IOError:: If the function fails to load a given resource.