# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ slixmpp.xmlstream.matcher.xpath ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Part of Slixmpp: The Slick XMPP Library :copyright: (c) 2011 Nathanael C. Fritz :license: MIT, see LICENSE for more details """ from slixmpp.xmlstream.stanzabase import ET, fix_ns from slixmpp.xmlstream.matcher.base import MatcherBase class MatchXPath(MatcherBase): """ The XPath matcher selects stanzas whose XML contents matches a given XPath expression. .. warning:: Using this matcher may not produce expected behavior when using attribute selectors. For Python 2.6 and 3.1, the ElementTree :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.find()` method does not support the use of attribute selectors. If you need to support Python 2.6 or 3.1, it might be more useful to use a :class:`~slixmpp.xmlstream.matcher.stanzapath.StanzaPath` matcher. If the value of :data:`IGNORE_NS` is set to ``True``, then XPath expressions will be matched without using namespaces. """ def __init__(self, criteria): self._criteria = fix_ns(criteria) def match(self, xml): """ Compare a stanza's XML contents to an XPath expression. If the value of :data:`IGNORE_NS` is set to ``True``, then XPath expressions will be matched without using namespaces. .. warning:: In Python 2.6 and 3.1 the ElementTree :meth:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.find()` method does not support attribute selectors in the XPath expression. :param xml: The :class:`~slixmpp.xmlstream.stanzabase.ElementBase` stanza to compare against. """ if hasattr(xml, 'xml'): xml = xml.xml x = ET.Element('x') x.append(xml) return x.find(self._criteria) is not None