Installation

Requirements

• Python 2.6 or greater (Python 3.x is supported)
• pip the installation tool for the Python Package Index (PyPI)

Prerequisites

jxmlease requires an implementation of the ElementTree API. Python (beginning in version 2.5) includes an implementation in the standard library which satisfies this prerequisite.

While not a pre-requisite, jxmlease will use some of the advanced functionality provided by the lxml module, if it is installed.

Of particular note is that lxml will maintain the original namespace identifiers when you use jxmlease to iterate over an lxml ElementTree data structure.

The standard library’s ElementTree data structures do not maintain the original namespace identifiers. See the “Namespace Identifiers” section of jxmlease.EtreeParser for more details on this restriction. Note: This is only applicable when using jxmlease to parse ElementTree data structures. This is not applicable when using jxmlease to parse text.

See lxml installation for details on installing lxml.

Installing the latest released version of jxmlease

Simply execute:

pip install jxmlease

Installing the latest development version of the jxmlease master branch

Execute:

pip install git+https://github.com/Juniper/jxmlease.git

(Note git must be installed).

Installing a specific version, branch, tag, etc.

Execute:

pip install git+https://github.com/Juniper/jxmlease.git@<branch,tag,commit>

(Note git must be installed).

Upgrading

Upgrading has the same requirements as installation. Simply add the -U (upgrade) option to the pip command:

pip install -U jxmlease