Like :meth:`validate` except it does not raise an exception on validation error but returns ``True`` if the XML data object is valid,

Helper method for registering parse errors. Does nothing if validation mode is 'skip'. Il validation mode is 'lax' collects the error

Decode the XML document to a nested Python dictionary. :param kwargs: options for the decode/to_dict method of the schema instance.

Encodes the data object to XML. :param validation: the validation mode. Can be 'lax', 'strict' or 'skip. :param kwargs: opti

Create a schema for a test case. :param source: A relative path or a root Element or a portion of schema for a template. :pa

Helper method for collecting or raising validation errors. :param validation: :param validator: the XSD validator related wi

Tests the equality of two XML Element trees. :param elem: the master Element tree, reference for namespace mapping. :param other: the ot

Returns a normalized URL eventually joining it to a base URL if it's a relative path. Path names are converted to 'file' scheme URLs and unsa

Set and parse the component Element.

Serialize an Element tree to a string. :param elem: the Element instance. :param namespaces: is an optional mapping from namespace prefi

Advances a model with a match condition and checks the expected error list or exception. :param model: an ModelGroupVisitor instance

Advances a model with a no-match condition and checks the expected error list or exception. :param model: an ModelGroupVisit

Returns a new schema instance from schema settings. Optional keyword arguments must be options for schema initialization and can be p

Gets a data element attribute.

Creates an iterator for the data element and its subelements. If tag is not `None` or '*', only data elements whose matches tag are r

Get the root element of the XML document.

A validator for ElementTree elements that excludes XsdElement objects.

Creates a new converter instance from the existing, replacing options provided with keyword arguments.

Returns the namespace URI associated with a QName in extended form or a local name. If the argument is not conformant to QName format returns

Generator function for advance to the next element. Yields tuples with particles information when occurrence violation is found.

Returns the namespace map (nsmap) of the element. Returns `None` if no nsmap is found for the element. Lazy resources have only the n

Get the prefixed form of a QName, using a namespace map. :param qname: an extended QName or a local name or a prefixed QName. :param nam

Returns an opened resource reader object for the instance URL. If the source attribute is a seekable file-like object rewind the sour

Set the right context for the XML data and its level, updating the namespace map if necessary. Returns the xmlns declarations of the

Converts loaded XML data to a JSON string or file. :param fp: can be a :meth:`write()` supporting file-like object. :param j

Splits a path expression to a sequence of chunks that put in evidence path steps, predicates and other parts that can be useful for checking

Return the local part of an expanded QName or a prefixed name. If the name is `None` or empty returns the *name* argument. :param qname:

Get the XML document validation/decode context. :return: an XMLResource instance and a schema instance.

Serialize an XML resource to a file. Cannot be used with lazy resources.

Returns `True` if the provided path is a UNC path, `False` otherwise. Based on the capabilities of `PureWindowsPath` of the Python release.

Counts the digits of a number. :param number: an int or a float or a Decimal or a string representing a number. :return: a couple with t

Decodes XML data. Takes the same arguments of the method :meth:`iter_decode`.

Returns `True` if the instance has an empty content, `False` otherwise.

QName resolution for a schema instance. :param qname: a string in xs:QName format. :param namespace_imported: if this argume

Returns `True` if the XML resource is lazy.

Finds the first data element matching the path. :param path: an XPath expression that considers the data element as the root.

Returns an expanded QName from URI and local part. If any argument has boolean value `False` or if the name is already an expanded QName, ret

XML resource tree iterator. If tag is not None or '*', only elements whose tag equals tag are returned from the iterator. In a lazy r

Creates and iterator for all XSD subelements matching the path. :param path: an XPath expression that considers the XSD component as

Finds all data elements matching the path. :param path: an XPath expression that considers the data element as the root. :pa

Loads the XML text from the data source. If the data source is an Element the source XML text can't be retrieved.

Converts an extended QName to the prefixed format. Only registered namespaces are mapped. :param qname: a QName in extended

Returns `True` if the instance is derived from *other*, `False` otherwise. The optional argument derivation can be a string containin

A generator function iterating elements and groups of a model group. Skips pointless groups, iterating deeper through them. R

Encodes a simple value to XML.

Update a namespace map without overwriting existing declarations. If a duplicate prefix is encountered in a xmlns declaration, and this i

Creates an empty local child content group for a complex type or a group.

Returns `True` if the provided path starts with a drive (e.g. 'C:'), `False` otherwise.

Iterates a content stored in a sequence of couples *(name, value)*, yielding items in the same order of the sequence, except for repetitions

Returns the XPath path from *root* to descendant *elem* element. :param elem: the descendant element. :param root: the root element.

Parse a URI and return a LocationPath. For non-local schemes like 'http', 'https', etc. a LocationPosixPath is returned. For Windows

Returns the list of namespaces declarations (xmlns and xmlns:<prefix> attributes) of the element. Returns `None` if the element doesn

Generates a sequence of validation errors if the XML data object is invalid. Accepts the same arguments of :meth:`validate`.

Returns the overall maximum for occurrences of a content model particle.

Returns the overall max occurs of a particle in the model subtracting the occurrences already registered by the occurs counter. Defau

Returns the overall minimum for occurrences of a content model particle.

Returns the overall min occurs of a particle in the model subtracting the occurrences already registered by the occurs counter. Defau

Converts a QName in prefixed format or a local name to the extended QName format. Local names are converted only if a default namespa

Get the extended form of a QName, using a namespace map. Local names are mapped to the default namespace. :param qname: a prefixed QName

Tests if particle occurrences are equal or over the maximum. If the argument is `None` then tests the current element.

Exports a schema instance. The schema instance is exported to a directory with also the hierarchy of imported/included schemas.

Extracts namespaces with related prefixes from the XML resource. If a duplicate prefix is encountered in a xmlns declaration, and

Returns `True` if the instance has an emptiable value or content, `False` otherwise.

Maps an XSD type to a type declaration of the target language. This method is registered as filter with a name dependant from

Normalize and restrict value-space with pre-lexical and lexical facets. :param text: text string encoded value. :return: a n