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  47         Class&nbsp;ObjectifiedElement
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  63 <!-- ==================== CLASS DESCRIPTION ==================== -->
  64 <h1 class="epydoc">Class ObjectifiedElement</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
  65 <pre class="base-tree">
  66     object --+
  67              |
  68 <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a> --+
  69                  |
  70  <a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html">etree.ElementBase</a> --+
  71                      |
  72                     <strong class="uidshort">ObjectifiedElement</strong>
  73 </pre>
  74
  75 <dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
  76 <dd>
  77       <ul class="subclass-list">
  78 <li><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedDataElement-class.html">ObjectifiedDataElement</a></li>  </ul>
  79 </dd></dl>
  80
  81 <hr />
  82 <p>Main XML Element class.</p>
  83 <p>Element children are accessed as object attributes.  Multiple children
  84 with the same name are available through a list index.  Example:</p>
  85 <pre class="rst-literal-block">
  86 &gt;&gt;&gt; root = XML(&quot;&lt;root&gt;&lt;c1&gt;&lt;c2&gt;0&lt;/c2&gt;&lt;c2&gt;1&lt;/c2&gt;&lt;/c1&gt;&lt;/root&gt;&quot;)
  87 &gt;&gt;&gt; second_c2 = root.c1.c2[1]
  88 &gt;&gt;&gt; print(second_c2.text)
  89 1
  90 </pre>
  91 <p>Note that you cannot (and must not) instantiate this class or its
  92 subclasses.</p>
  93
  94 <!-- ==================== INSTANCE METHODS ==================== -->
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 101       <tr valign="top">
 102         <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Instance Methods</span></td>
 103         <td align="right" valign="top"
 104          ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-InstanceMethods"
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 109   </td>
 110 </tr>
 111 <tr>
 112     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 113       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 114     </td><td class="summary">
 115       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 116         <tr>
 117           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__delattr__" class="summary-sig-name">__delattr__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 118       x.__delattr__('name') &lt;==&gt; del x.name</td>
 119           <td align="right" valign="top">
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 128 <tr>
 129     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 130       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 131     </td><td class="summary">
 132       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 133         <tr>
 134           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__delitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__delitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">x</span>,
 135         <span class="summary-sig-arg">y</span>)</span><br />
 136       del x[y]</td>
 137           <td align="right" valign="top">
 138
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 141         </tr>
 142       </table>
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 145   </tr>
 146 <tr>
 147     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 148       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 149     </td><td class="summary">
 150       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 151         <tr>
 152           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="__getattr__"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">__getattr__</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 153       Return the (first) child with the given tag name.  If no namespace
 154 is provided, the child will be looked up in the same one as self.</td>
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 164 <tr>
 165     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 166       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 167     </td><td class="summary">
 168       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 169         <tr>
 170           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__getattribute__" class="summary-sig-name">__getattribute__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 171       x.__getattribute__('name') &lt;==&gt; x.name</td>
 172           <td align="right" valign="top">
 173
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 176         </tr>
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 180   </tr>
 181 <tr>
 182     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 183       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 184     </td><td class="summary">
 185       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 186         <tr>
 187           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__getitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__getitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 188       Return a sibling, counting from the first child of the parent.  The
 189 method behaves like both a dict and a sequence.</td>
 190           <td align="right" valign="top">
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 198   </tr>
 199 <tr>
 200     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 201       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 202     </td><td class="summary">
 203       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 204         <tr>
 205           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__iter__" class="summary-sig-name">__iter__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 206       Iterate over self and all siblings with the same tag.</td>
 207           <td align="right" valign="top">
 208
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 210           </td>
 211         </tr>
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 215   </tr>
 216 <tr>
 217     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 218       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 219     </td><td class="summary">
 220       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 221         <tr>
 222           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__len__" class="summary-sig-name">__len__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 223       Count self and siblings with the same tag.</td>
 224           <td align="right" valign="top">
 225
 226
 227           </td>
 228         </tr>
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 232   </tr>
 233 <tr>
 234     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 235       <span class="summary-type">a new object with type S, a subtype of T</span>
 236     </td><td class="summary">
 237       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 238         <tr>
 239           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__new__" class="summary-sig-name">__new__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">T</span>,
 240         <span class="summary-sig-arg">S</span>,
 241         <span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span></td>
 242           <td align="right" valign="top">
 243
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 246         </tr>
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 249     </td>
 250   </tr>
 251 <tr>
 252     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 253       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 254     </td><td class="summary">
 255       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 256         <tr>
 257           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__reduce__" class="summary-sig-name">__reduce__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 258       helper for pickle</td>
 259           <td align="right" valign="top">
 260
 261
 262           </td>
 263         </tr>
 264       </table>
 265
 266     </td>
 267   </tr>
 268 <tr>
 269     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 270       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 271     </td><td class="summary">
 272       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 273         <tr>
 274           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__setattr__" class="summary-sig-name">__setattr__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 275       Set the value of the (first) child with the given tag name.  If no
 276 namespace is provided, the child will be looked up in the same one as
 277 self.</td>
 278           <td align="right" valign="top">
 279
 280
 281           </td>
 282         </tr>
 283       </table>
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 285     </td>
 286   </tr>
 287 <tr>
 288     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 289       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 290     </td><td class="summary">
 291       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 292         <tr>
 293           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__setitem__" class="summary-sig-name">__setitem__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">...</span>)</span><br />
 294       Set the value of a sibling, counting from the first child of the
 295 parent.  Implements key assignment, item assignment and slice
 296 assignment.</td>
 297           <td align="right" valign="top">
 298
 299
 300           </td>
 301         </tr>
 302       </table>
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 304     </td>
 305   </tr>
 306 <tr>
 307     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 308       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 309     </td><td class="summary">
 310       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 311         <tr>
 312           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#__str__" class="summary-sig-name">__str__</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">x</span>)</span><br />
 313       str(x)</td>
 314           <td align="right" valign="top">
 315
 316
 317           </td>
 318         </tr>
 319       </table>
 320
 321     </td>
 322   </tr>
 323 <tr>
 324     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 325       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 326     </td><td class="summary">
 327       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 328         <tr>
 329           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#addattr" class="summary-sig-name">addattr</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
 330         <span class="summary-sig-arg">tag</span>,
 331         <span class="summary-sig-arg">value</span>)</span><br />
 332       Add a child value to the element.</td>
 333           <td align="right" valign="top">
 334
 335
 336           </td>
 337         </tr>
 338       </table>
 339
 340     </td>
 341   </tr>
 342 <tr>
 343     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 344       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 345     </td><td class="summary">
 346       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 347         <tr>
 348           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="countchildren"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">countchildren</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
 349       Return the number of children of this element, regardless of their
 350 name.</td>
 351           <td align="right" valign="top">
 352
 353
 354           </td>
 355         </tr>
 356       </table>
 357
 358     </td>
 359   </tr>
 360 <tr>
 361     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 362       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 363     </td><td class="summary">
 364       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 365         <tr>
 366           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="descendantpaths"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">descendantpaths</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>,
 367         <span class="summary-sig-arg">prefix</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>)</span><br />
 368       Returns a list of object path expressions for all descendants.</td>
 369           <td align="right" valign="top">
 370
 371
 372           </td>
 373         </tr>
 374       </table>
 375
 376     </td>
 377   </tr>
 378 <tr>
 379     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 380       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 381     </td><td class="summary">
 382       <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 383         <tr>
 384           <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.objectify.ObjectifiedElement-class.html#getchildren" class="summary-sig-name">getchildren</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">self</span>)</span><br />
 385       Returns a sequence of all direct children.  The elements are
 386 returned in document order.</td>
 387           <td align="right" valign="top">
 388
 389
 390           </td>
 391         </tr>
 392       </table>
 393
 394     </td>
 395   </tr>
 396   <tr>
 397     <td colspan="2" class="summary">
 398     <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html">etree.ElementBase</a></code></b>:
 399       <code><a href="lxml.etree.ElementBase-class.html#__init__">__init__</a></code>
 400       </p>
 401     <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a></code></b>:
 402       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__contains__">__contains__</a></code>,
 403       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__copy__">__copy__</a></code>,
 404       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__deepcopy__">__deepcopy__</a></code>,
 405       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__nonzero__">__nonzero__</a></code>,
 406       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__repr__">__repr__</a></code>,
 407       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__reversed__">__reversed__</a></code>,
 408       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#addnext">addnext</a></code>,
 409       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#addprevious">addprevious</a></code>,
 410       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#append">append</a></code>,
 411       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#clear">clear</a></code>,
 412       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#cssselect">cssselect</a></code>,
 413       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#extend">extend</a></code>,
 414       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#find">find</a></code>,
 415       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findall">findall</a></code>,
 416       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#findtext">findtext</a></code>,
 417       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#get">get</a></code>,
 418       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getiterator">getiterator</a></code>,
 419       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getnext">getnext</a></code>,
 420       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getparent">getparent</a></code>,
 421       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getprevious">getprevious</a></code>,
 422       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getroottree">getroottree</a></code>,
 423       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#index">index</a></code>,
 424       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#insert">insert</a></code>,
 425       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#items">items</a></code>,
 426       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iter">iter</a></code>,
 427       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterancestors">iterancestors</a></code>,
 428       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterchildren">iterchildren</a></code>,
 429       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterdescendants">iterdescendants</a></code>,
 430       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#iterfind">iterfind</a></code>,
 431       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#itersiblings">itersiblings</a></code>,
 432       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#itertext">itertext</a></code>,
 433       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#keys">keys</a></code>,
 434       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#makeelement">makeelement</a></code>,
 435       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#remove">remove</a></code>,
 436       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#replace">replace</a></code>,
 437       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#set">set</a></code>,
 438       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#values">values</a></code>,
 439       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#xpath">xpath</a></code>
 440       </p>
 441     <div class="private">    <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a></code></b> (private):
 442       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#_init" onclick="show_private();">_init</a></code>
 443       </p></div>
 444     <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
 445       <code>__format__</code>,
 446       <code>__hash__</code>,
 447       <code>__reduce_ex__</code>,
 448       <code>__sizeof__</code>,
 449       <code>__subclasshook__</code>
 450       </p>
 451     </td>
 452   </tr>
 453 </table>
 454 <!-- ==================== PROPERTIES ==================== -->
 455 <a name="section-Properties"></a>
 456 <table class="summary" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 457        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 458 <tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
 459   <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
 460     <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
 461       <tr valign="top">
 462         <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Properties</span></td>
 463         <td align="right" valign="top"
 464          ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-Properties"
 465          class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
 466          >hide private</a>]</span></td>
 467       </tr>
 468     </table>
 469   </td>
 470 </tr>
 471 <tr>
 472     <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary">
 473       <span class="summary-type">&nbsp;</span>
 474     </td><td class="summary">
 475         <a name="text"></a><span class="summary-name">text</span><br />
 476       Text before the first subelement. This is either a string or
 477 the value None, if there was no text.
 478     </td>
 479   </tr>
 480   <tr>
 481     <td colspan="2" class="summary">
 482     <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html" onclick="show_private();">etree._Element</a></code></b>:
 483       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#attrib">attrib</a></code>,
 484       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#base">base</a></code>,
 485       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#nsmap">nsmap</a></code>,
 486       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#prefix">prefix</a></code>,
 487       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#sourceline">sourceline</a></code>,
 488       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#tag">tag</a></code>,
 489       <code><a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#tail">tail</a></code>
 490       </p>
 491     <p class="indent-wrapped-lines"><b>Inherited from <code>object</code></b>:
 492       <code>__class__</code>
 493       </p>
 494     </td>
 495   </tr>
 496 </table>
 497 <!-- ==================== METHOD DETAILS ==================== -->
 498 <a name="section-MethodDetails"></a>
 499 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 500        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 501 <tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header">
 502   <td colspan="2" class="table-header">
 503     <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
 504       <tr valign="top">
 505         <td align="left"><span class="table-header">Method Details</span></td>
 506         <td align="right" valign="top"
 507          ><span class="options">[<a href="#section-MethodDetails"
 508          class="privatelink" onclick="toggle_private();"
 509          >hide private</a>]</span></td>
 510       </tr>
 511     </table>
 512   </td>
 513 </tr>
 514 </table>
 515 <a name="__delattr__"></a>
 516 <div>
 517 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 518        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 519 <tr><td>
 520   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 521   <tr valign="top"><td>
 522   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__delattr__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 523   </h3>
 524   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 525     >&nbsp;
 526     </td>
 527   </tr></table>
 528
 529   x.__delattr__('name') &lt;==&gt; del x.name
 530   <dl class="fields">
 531     <dt>Overrides:
 532         object.__delattr__
 533     </dt>
 534   </dl>
 535 </td></tr></table>
 536 </div>
 537 <a name="__delitem__"></a>
 538 <div>
 539 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 540        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 541 <tr><td>
 542   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 543   <tr valign="top"><td>
 544   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__delitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">x</span>,
 545         <span class="sig-arg">y</span>)</span>
 546     <br /><em class="fname">(Index deletion operator)</em>
 547   </h3>
 548   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 549     >&nbsp;
 550     </td>
 551   </tr></table>
 552
 553   del x[y]
 554   <dl class="fields">
 555     <dt>Overrides:
 556         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__delitem__">etree._Element.__delitem__</a>
 557     </dt>
 558   </dl>
 559 </td></tr></table>
 560 </div>
 561 <a name="__getattribute__"></a>
 562 <div>
 563 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 564        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 565 <tr><td>
 566   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 567   <tr valign="top"><td>
 568   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__getattribute__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 569   </h3>
 570   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 571     >&nbsp;
 572     </td>
 573   </tr></table>
 574
 575   x.__getattribute__('name') &lt;==&gt; x.name
 576   <dl class="fields">
 577     <dt>Overrides:
 578         object.__getattribute__
 579     </dt>
 580   </dl>
 581 </td></tr></table>
 582 </div>
 583 <a name="__getitem__"></a>
 584 <div>
 585 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 586        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 587 <tr><td>
 588   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 589   <tr valign="top"><td>
 590   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__getitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 591     <br /><em class="fname">(Indexing operator)</em>
 592   </h3>
 593   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 594     >&nbsp;
 595     </td>
 596   </tr></table>
 597
 598   <p>Return a sibling, counting from the first child of the parent.  The
 599 method behaves like both a dict and a sequence.</p>
 600 <ul class="rst-simple">
 601 <li>If argument is an integer, returns the sibling at that position.</li>
 602 <li>If argument is a string, does the same as getattr().  This can be
 603 used to provide namespaces for element lookup, or to look up
 604 children with special names (<tt class="rst-docutils literal">text</tt> etc.).</li>
 605 <li>If argument is a slice object, returns the matching slice.</li>
 606 </ul>
 607   <dl class="fields">
 608     <dt>Overrides:
 609         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__getitem__">etree._Element.__getitem__</a>
 610     </dt>
 611   </dl>
 612 </td></tr></table>
 613 </div>
 614 <a name="__iter__"></a>
 615 <div>
 616 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 617        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 618 <tr><td>
 619   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 620   <tr valign="top"><td>
 621   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__iter__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 622   </h3>
 623   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 624     >&nbsp;
 625     </td>
 626   </tr></table>
 627
 628   Iterate over self and all siblings with the same tag.
 629   <dl class="fields">
 630     <dt>Overrides:
 631         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__iter__">etree._Element.__iter__</a>
 632     </dt>
 633   </dl>
 634 </td></tr></table>
 635 </div>
 636 <a name="__len__"></a>
 637 <div>
 638 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 639        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 640 <tr><td>
 641   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 642   <tr valign="top"><td>
 643   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__len__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 644     <br /><em class="fname">(Length operator)</em>
 645   </h3>
 646   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 647     >&nbsp;
 648     </td>
 649   </tr></table>
 650
 651   Count self and siblings with the same tag.
 652   <dl class="fields">
 653     <dt>Overrides:
 654         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__len__">etree._Element.__len__</a>
 655     </dt>
 656   </dl>
 657 </td></tr></table>
 658 </div>
 659 <a name="__new__"></a>
 660 <div>
 661 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 662        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 663 <tr><td>
 664   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 665   <tr valign="top"><td>
 666   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__new__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">T</span>,
 667         <span class="sig-arg">S</span>,
 668         <span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 669   </h3>
 670   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 671     >&nbsp;
 672     </td>
 673   </tr></table>
 674
 675
 676   <dl class="fields">
 677     <dt>Returns: a new object with type S, a subtype of T</dt>
 678     <dt>Overrides:
 679         object.__new__
 680     </dt>
 681   </dl>
 682 </td></tr></table>
 683 </div>
 684 <a name="__reduce__"></a>
 685 <div>
 686 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 687        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 688 <tr><td>
 689   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 690   <tr valign="top"><td>
 691   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__reduce__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 692   </h3>
 693   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 694     >&nbsp;
 695     </td>
 696   </tr></table>
 697
 698   helper for pickle
 699   <dl class="fields">
 700     <dt>Overrides:
 701         object.__reduce__
 702         <dd><em class="note">(inherited documentation)</em></dd>
 703     </dt>
 704   </dl>
 705 </td></tr></table>
 706 </div>
 707 <a name="__setattr__"></a>
 708 <div>
 709 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 710        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 711 <tr><td>
 712   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 713   <tr valign="top"><td>
 714   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__setattr__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 715   </h3>
 716   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 717     >&nbsp;
 718     </td>
 719   </tr></table>
 720
 721   Set the value of the (first) child with the given tag name.  If no
 722 namespace is provided, the child will be looked up in the same one as
 723 self.
 724   <dl class="fields">
 725     <dt>Overrides:
 726         object.__setattr__
 727     </dt>
 728   </dl>
 729 </td></tr></table>
 730 </div>
 731 <a name="__setitem__"></a>
 732 <div>
 733 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 734        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 735 <tr><td>
 736   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 737   <tr valign="top"><td>
 738   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__setitem__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">...</span>)</span>
 739     <br /><em class="fname">(Index assignment operator)</em>
 740   </h3>
 741   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 742     >&nbsp;
 743     </td>
 744   </tr></table>
 745
 746   <p>Set the value of a sibling, counting from the first child of the
 747 parent.  Implements key assignment, item assignment and slice
 748 assignment.</p>
 749 <ul class="rst-simple">
 750 <li>If argument is an integer, sets the sibling at that position.</li>
 751 <li>If argument is a string, does the same as setattr().  This is used
 752 to provide namespaces for element lookup.</li>
 753 <li>If argument is a sequence (list, tuple, etc.), assign the contained
 754 items to the siblings.</li>
 755 </ul>
 756   <dl class="fields">
 757     <dt>Overrides:
 758         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#__setitem__">etree._Element.__setitem__</a>
 759     </dt>
 760   </dl>
 761 </td></tr></table>
 762 </div>
 763 <a name="__str__"></a>
 764 <div>
 765 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 766        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 767 <tr><td>
 768   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 769   <tr valign="top"><td>
 770   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">__str__</span>(<span class="sig-arg">x</span>)</span>
 771     <br /><em class="fname">(Informal representation operator)</em>
 772   </h3>
 773   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 774     >&nbsp;
 775     </td>
 776   </tr></table>
 777
 778   str(x)
 779   <dl class="fields">
 780     <dt>Overrides:
 781         object.__str__
 782     </dt>
 783   </dl>
 784 </td></tr></table>
 785 </div>
 786 <a name="addattr"></a>
 787 <div>
 788 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 789        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 790 <tr><td>
 791   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 792   <tr valign="top"><td>
 793   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">addattr</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>,
 794         <span class="sig-arg">tag</span>,
 795         <span class="sig-arg">value</span>)</span>
 796   </h3>
 797   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 798     >&nbsp;
 799     </td>
 800   </tr></table>
 801
 802   <p>Add a child value to the element.</p>
 803 <p>As opposed to append(), it sets a data value, not an element.</p>
 804   <dl class="fields">
 805   </dl>
 806 </td></tr></table>
 807 </div>
 808 <a name="getchildren"></a>
 809 <div>
 810 <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3"
 811        cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white">
 812 <tr><td>
 813   <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
 814   <tr valign="top"><td>
 815   <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">getchildren</span>(<span class="sig-arg">self</span>)</span>
 816   </h3>
 817   </td><td align="right" valign="top"
 818     >&nbsp;
 819     </td>
 820   </tr></table>
 821
 822   Returns a sequence of all direct children.  The elements are
 823 returned in document order.
 824   <dl class="fields">
 825     <dt>Overrides:
 826         <a href="lxml.etree._Element-class.html#getchildren">etree._Element.getchildren</a>
 827     </dt>
 828   </dl>
 829 </td></tr></table>
 830 </div>
 831 <br />
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 833 <table class="navbar" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"
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 836   <!-- Home link -->
 837       <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
 838         href="lxml-module.html">Home</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
 839
 840   <!-- Tree link -->
 841       <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
 842         href="module-tree.html">Trees</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
 843
 844   <!-- Index link -->
 845       <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
 846         href="identifier-index.html">Indices</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
 847
 848   <!-- Help link -->
 849       <th>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a
 850         href="help.html">Help</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</th>
 851
 852   <!-- Project homepage -->
 853       <th class="navbar" align="right" width="100%">
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 855           <tr><th class="navbar" align="center"
 856             ><a class="navbar" target="_top" href="/">lxml API</a></th>
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