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64 <h1 class="epydoc">Class PIBase</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
65 <pre class="base-tree">
68 <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_Element</a> --+
70 <a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html" onclick="show_private();">__ContentOnlyElement</a> --+
72 <a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_ProcessingInstruction</a> --+
74 <strong class="uidshort">PIBase</strong>
77 <dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
79 <ul class="subclass-list">
80 <li class="private"><a href="lxml.etree._XSLTProcessingInstruction-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_XSLTProcessingInstruction</a></li><li class="private">, <a href="lxml.html.HtmlProcessingInstruction-class.html" onclick="show_private();">html.HtmlProcessingInstruction</a></li> </ul>
84 <p>All custom Processing Instruction classes must inherit from this one.</p>
85 <p>To create an XML ProcessingInstruction instance, use the <tt class="rst-docutils literal">PI()</tt>
87 <p>Subclasses <em>must not</em> override __init__ or __new__ as it is
88 absolutely undefined when these objects will be created or
89 destroyed. All persistent state of PIs must be stored in the
90 underlying XML. If you really need to initialize the object after
91 creation, you can implement an <tt class="rst-docutils literal">_init(self)</tt> method that will be
92 called after object creation.</p>
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117 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.etree.PIBase-class.html#__init__" class="summary-sig-name">__init__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
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130 <span class="summary-type">a new object with type S, a subtype of T</span>
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134 <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.etree.PIBase-class.html#__new__" class="summary-sig-name">__new__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">T</span>,
135 <span class="summary-sig-arg">S</span>,
136 <span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span></td>
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148 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_ProcessingInstruction</a></code></b>:
149 <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html#__repr__">__repr__</a></code>,
150 <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html#get">get</a></code>
152 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html" onclick="show_private();">__ContentOnlyElement</a></code></b>:
153 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#__delitem__">__delitem__</a></code>,
154 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#__getitem__">__getitem__</a></code>,
155 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#__len__">__len__</a></code>,
156 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#__setitem__">__setitem__</a></code>,
157 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#append">append</a></code>,
158 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#insert">insert</a></code>,
159 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#items">items</a></code>,
160 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#keys">keys</a></code>,
161 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#set">set</a></code>,
162 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#values">values</a></code>
164 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_Element</a></code></b>:
165 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__contains__">__contains__</a></code>,
166 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__copy__">__copy__</a></code>,
167 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__deepcopy__">__deepcopy__</a></code>,
168 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__iter__">__iter__</a></code>,
169 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__nonzero__">__nonzero__</a></code>,
170 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__reversed__">__reversed__</a></code>,
171 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#addnext">addnext</a></code>,
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174 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#extend">extend</a></code>,
175 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#find">find</a></code>,
176 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findall">findall</a></code>,
177 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findtext">findtext</a></code>,
178 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getchildren">getchildren</a></code>,
179 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getiterator">getiterator</a></code>,
180 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getnext">getnext</a></code>,
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191 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#itertext">itertext</a></code>,
192 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#makeelement">makeelement</a></code>,
193 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#remove">remove</a></code>,
194 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#replace">replace</a></code>,
195 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#xpath">xpath</a></code>
197 <div class="private"> <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_Element</a></code></b> (private):
198 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#_init" onclick="show_private();">_init</a></code>
200 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
201 <code>__delattr__</code>,
202 <code>__format__</code>,
203 <code>__getattribute__</code>,
204 <code>__hash__</code>,
205 <code>__reduce__</code>,
206 <code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
207 <code>__setattr__</code>,
208 <code>__sizeof__</code>,
209 <code>__str__</code>,
210 <code>__subclasshook__</code>
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234 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_ProcessingInstruction</a></code></b>:
235 <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html#attrib">attrib</a></code>,
236 <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html#tag">tag</a></code>,
237 <code><a href="lxml.etree._ProcessingInstruction-class.html#target">target</a></code>
239 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html" onclick="show_private();">__ContentOnlyElement</a></code></b>:
240 <code><a href="lxml.etree.__ContentOnlyElement-class.html#text">text</a></code>
242 <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_Element</a></code></b>:
243 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#base">base</a></code>,
244 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#nsmap">nsmap</a></code>,
245 <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#prefix">prefix</a></code>,
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