xfind – Tree traversal and filtering

This module contains XFind selectors and related classes and functions.

A selector specifies a condition that a node in an XIST tree must satisfy to match the selector. For example the method Node.walk() will only output nodes that match the specified selector.

Selectors can be combined with various operations and form a language comparable to XPath but implemented as Python expressions.

ll.xist.xfind.filter(iter, *selectors)

Filter an iterator over xsc.Cursor objects against a Selector object.

Example:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> [c.node.string() for c in xfind.filter(doc.walk(), html.b, html.title)]
[
        '<title>Welcome to Python.org</title>',
        '<b>Web Programming</b>',
        '<b>GUI Development</b>',
        '<b>Scientific and Numeric</b>',
        '<b>Software Development</b>',
        '<b>System Administration</b>'
]

ll.xist.xfind.selector(*objs)

Create a Selector object from objs.

If objs is empty (i.e. selector() is called without arguments) any is returned (which matches every node).

If more than one argument is passed (or the argument is a tuple), an OrCombinator is returned.

Otherwise the following steps are taken for the single argument obj:

• if obj already is a Selector object it is returned unchanged;

• if obj is a Node subclass, an IsInstanceSelector is returned (which matches if the node is an instance of this class);

• if obj is a Node instance, an IsSelector is returned (which matches only obj);

• if obj is callable a CallableSelector is returned (where matching is done by calling obj);

• if obj is None any will be returned;

• otherwise selector() will raise a TypeError.

class ll.xist.xfind.Selector

Bases: object

A selector specifies a condition that a node in an XIST tree must satisfy to match the selector.

Whether a node matches the selector can be specified by overwriting the __contains__() method. Selectors can be combined with various operations (see methods below).

__contains__(path)

Return whether path (which is a list of XIST nodes from the root of the tree to the node in question) matches the selector.

__truediv__(other)

Create a ChildCombinator with self as the left hand selector and other as the right hand selector.

__rtruediv__(other)

Create a ChildCombinator with other as the left hand selector and self as the right hand selector.

__floordiv__(other)

Create a DescendantCombinator with self as the left hand selector and other as the right hand selector.

__rfloordiv__(other)

Create a DescendantCombinator with other as the left hand selector and self as the right hand selector.

__mul__(other)

Create an AdjacentSiblingCombinator with self as the left hand selector and other as the right hand selector.

__rmul__(other)

Create an AdjacentSiblingCombinator with other as the left hand selector and self as the right hand selector.

__pow__(other)

Create a GeneralSiblingCombinator with self as the left hand selector and other as the right hand selector.

__rpow__(other)

Create a GeneralSiblingCombinator with other as the left hand selector and self as the right hand selector.

__and__(other)

Create an AndCombinator from self and other.

__rand__(other)

Create an AndCombinator from other and self.

__or__(other)

Create an OrCombinator from self and other.

__ror__(other)

Create an OrCombinator from other and self.

__invert__()

Create a NotCombinator inverting self.

class ll.xist.xfind.AnySelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all nodes.

An instance of this class named any is created as a module global, i.e. you can use xfind.any.

class ll.xist.xfind.IsInstanceSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all nodes that are instances of the specified type. You can either create an IsInstanceSelector object directly or simply pass a class to a function that expects a selector (this class will be automatically wrapped in an IsInstanceSelector):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.a):
...     print(node.attrs.href, node.attrs.title)
...
https://www.python.org/#content Skip to content
https://www.python.org/#python-network
https://www.python.org/ The Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/psf-landing/ The Python Software Foundation
...

__getitem__(index)

Return an nthoftype selector that uses index as the index and self.types as the types.

class ll.xist.xfind.element

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all elements that have a specified namespace name and element name:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.element(html, "img")):
...     print(node.string())
...
<img alt="python™" class="python-logo" src="https://www.python.org/static/img/python-logo.png" />

class ll.xist.xfind.procinst

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all processing instructions that have a specified name.

class ll.xist.xfind.entity

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all entities that have a specified name.

class ll.xist.xfind.IsSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects one specific node in the tree. This can be combined with other selectors via ChildCombinator or DescendantCombinator selectors to select children of this specific node. You can either create an IsSelector directly or simply pass a node to a function that expects a selector:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(doc[0]/xsc.Element):
...     print(repr(node))
...
<element ll.xist.ns.html.head xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (89 children/no attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x104ad7630>
<element ll.xist.ns.html.body xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (14 children/2 attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x104cc1f28>

class ll.xist.xfind.IsRootSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects the node that is the root of the traversal.

An instance of this class named isroot is created as a module global, i.e. you can use xfind.isroot.

class ll.xist.xfind.IsEmptySelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all empty elements or fragments.

An instance of this class named empty is created as a module global, i.e. you can use xfind.empty:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.empty):
...     print(node.string())
...
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<link href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/" rel="prefetch" />
<meta name="application-name" content="Python.org" />
...

class ll.xist.xfind.OnlyChildSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all nodes that are the only child of their parents.

An instance of this class named onlychild is created as a module global, i.e. you can use xfind.onlychild:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.onlychild & html.a):
...     print(node.string())
...
<a class="text-shrink" href="javascript:;" title="Make Text Smaller">Smaller</a>
<a class="text-grow" href="javascript:;" title="Make Text Larger">Larger</a>
<a class="text-reset" href="javascript:;" title="Reset any font size changes I have made">Reset</a>
<a href="http://plus.google.com/+Python"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-google-plus"></span>Google+</a>
...

class ll.xist.xfind.OnlyOfTypeSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all nodes that are the only nodes of their type among their siblings.

An instance of this class named onlyoftype is created as a module global, i.e. you can use xfind.onlyoftype:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.onlyoftype & xsc.Element):
...     print(repr(node))
...
<element ll.xist.ns.html.html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (7 children/3 attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x108858d30>
<element ll.xist.ns.html.head xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (89 children/no attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x108858630>
<element ll.xist.ns.html.title xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (1 child/no attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x108c547b8>
<element ll.xist.ns.html.body xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' (14 children/2 attrs) location='https://www.python.org/:?:?' at 0x108c54eb8>
...

class ll.xist.xfind.hasattr

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes that have an attribute with one of the specified names. (Names can be strings, (attribute name, namespace name) tuples or attribute classes or instances):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.hasattr("id")):
...     print(node.xmlname, node.attrs.id)
...
body homepage
div touchnav-wrapper
div top
a close-python-network
...

class ll.xist.xfind.attrhasvalue

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where an attribute with the specified name has one of the specified values. (Names can be strings, (attribute name, namespace name) tuples or attribute classes or instances). Note that “fancy” attributes (i.e. those containing non-text) will not be considered:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.attrhasvalue("rel", "stylesheet")):
...     print(node.attrs.href)
...
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/style.css
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/mq.css

class ll.xist.xfind.attrcontains

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where an attribute with the specified name contains one of the specified substrings in its value. (Names can be strings, (attribute name, namespace name) tuples or attribute classes or instances). Note that “fancy” attributes (i.e. those containing non-text) will not be considered:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.attrcontains("rel", "stylesheet")):
...     print(node.attrs.rel, node.attrs.href)
...
stylesheet https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/style.css
stylesheet https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/mq.css

class ll.xist.xfind.attrstartswith

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where an attribute with the specified name starts with any of the specified strings. (Names can be strings, (attribute name, namespace name) tuples or attribute classes or instances). Note that “fancy” attributes (i.e. those containing non-text) will not be considered:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.attrstartswith("class", "icon-")):
...     print(node.bytes())
...
b'<span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-arrow-down"><span>\xe2\x96\xbc</span></span>'
b'<span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-arrow-up"><span>\xe2\x96\xb2</span></span>'
b'<span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-search"></span>'
b'<span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-facebook"></span>'
...

class ll.xist.xfind.attrendswith

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where an attribute with the specified name ends with one of the specified strings. (Names can be strings, (attribute name, namespace name) tuples or attribute classes or instances). Note that “fancy” attributes (i.e. those containing non-text) will not be considered:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.attrendswith("href", ".css")):
...     print(node.attrs.href)
...
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/style.css
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/mq.css

class ll.xist.xfind.hasid

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where the id attribute has one if the specified values:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.hasid("id-search-field")):
...     print(node.string())
...
<input class="search-field" id="id-search-field" name="q" placeholder="Search" role="textbox" tabindex="1" type="search" />

class ll.xist.xfind.hasclass

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all element nodes where the class attribute contains one of the specified values:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.hasclass("tier-1")/html.a):
...     print(node.string())
...
A A
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...

class ll.xist.xfind.InAttrSelector

Bases: Selector

Selector that selects all attribute nodes and nodes inside of attributes:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for path in doc.walkpaths(xfind.inattr & xsc.Text, enterattrs=True, enterattr=True):
...     print(path[-3].xmlname, path[-2].xmlname, path[-1].string())
...
html class no-js
html dir ltr
html lang en
meta charset utf-8
meta content IE=edge
meta http-equiv X-UA-Compatible
...

class ll.xist.xfind.Combinator

Bases: Selector

A Combinator is a selector that transforms one or combines two or more other selectors in a certain way.

class ll.xist.xfind.BinaryCombinator

Bases: Combinator

A BinaryCombinator is a combinator that combines two selector: the left hand selector and the right hand selector.

class ll.xist.xfind.ChildCombinator

Bases: BinaryCombinator

A ChildCombinator is a BinaryCombinator. To match the ChildCombinator the node must match the right hand selector and its immediate parent must match the left hand selector (i.e. it works similar to the > combinator in CSS or the / combinator in XPath).

ChildCombinator objects can be created via the division operator (/):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.a/html.img):
...     print(node.string())
...
<img alt="python™" class="python-logo" src="https://www.python.org/static/img/python-logo.png" />

class ll.xist.xfind.DescendantCombinator

Bases: BinaryCombinator

A DescendantCombinator is a BinaryCombinator. To match the DescendantCombinator the node must match the right hand selector and any of its ancestor nodes must match the left hand selector (i.e. it works similar to the descendant combinator in CSS or the // combinator in XPath).

DescendantCombinator objects can be created via the floor division operator (//):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.div//html.img):
...     print(node.string())
...
<img alt="python™" class="python-logo" src="https://www.python.org/static/img/python-logo.png" />

class ll.xist.xfind.AdjacentSiblingCombinator

Bases: BinaryCombinator

A AdjacentSiblingCombinator is a BinaryCombinator. To match the AdjacentSiblingCombinator the node must match the right hand selector and the immediately preceding sibling must match the left hand selector.

AdjacentSiblingCombinator objects can be created via the multiplication operator (*). The following example outputs all span elements that immediately follow a form element:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.form*html.span):
...     print(node.string())
...
<span class="breaker"></span>

class ll.xist.xfind.GeneralSiblingCombinator

Bases: BinaryCombinator

A GeneralSiblingCombinator is a BinaryCombinator. To match the GeneralSiblingCombinator the node must match the right hand selector and any of the preceding siblings must match the left hand selector.

AdjacentSiblingCombinator objects can be created via the exponentiation operator (**). The following example outputs all meta elements that come after a link elements:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.link**html.meta):
...     print(node.string())
...
<meta name="application-name" content="Python.org" />
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="The official home of the Python Programming Language" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Python.org" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
...

class ll.xist.xfind.ChainedCombinator

Bases: Combinator

A ChainedCombinator combines any number of other selectors.

class ll.xist.xfind.OrCombinator

Bases: ChainedCombinator

An OrCombinator is a ChainedCombinator where the node must match at least one of the selectors to match the OrCombinator. An OrCombinator can be created with the binary or operator (|):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.hasattr("href") | xfind.hasattr("src")):
...     print(node.attrs.href if "href" in node.Attrs else node.attrs.src)
...
https://ajax.googleapis.com/
https://www.python.org/static/js/libs/modernizr.js
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/style.css
https://www.python.org/static/stylesheets/mq.css
https://www.python.org/static/favicon.ico
...

class ll.xist.xfind.AndCombinator

Bases: ChainedCombinator

An AndCombinator is a ChainedCombinator where the node must match all of the combined selectors to match the AndCombinator. An AndCombinator can be created with the binary and operator (&):

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.input & xfind.hasattr("id")):
...     print(node.string())
...
<input class="search-field" id="id-search-field" name="q" placeholder="Search" role="textbox" tabindex="1" type="search" />

class ll.xist.xfind.NotCombinator

Bases: Combinator

A NotCombinator inverts the selection logic of the underlying selector, i.e. a node matches only if it does not match the underlying selector. A NotCombinator can be created with the unary inversion operator (~).

The following example outputs all internal scripts:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(html.script & ~xfind.hasattr("src")):
...     print(node.string())
...
<script type="text/javascript">
    var _gaq = _gaq || [];
    _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-39055973-1']);
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

    (function() {
        var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
        ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
    })();
    </script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('&lt;script src="/static/js/libs/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;')</script>

class ll.xist.xfind.CallableSelector

Bases: Selector

A CallableSelector is a selector that calls a user specified callable to select nodes. The callable gets passed the path and must return a bool specifying whether this path is selected. A CallableSelector is created implicitely whenever a callable is passed to a method that expects a selector.

The following example outputs all links that point outside the python.org domain:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> def isextlink(path):
...     return isinstance(path[-1], html.a) and not str(path[-1].attrs.href).startswith("https://www.python.org")
...
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(isextlink):
...     print(node.string())
...
<a href="http://docs.python.org/" title="Python Documentation">Docs</a>
<a href="https://pypi.python.org/" title="Python Package Index">PyPI</a>
<a class="text-shrink" href="javascript:;" title="Make Text Smaller">Smaller</a>
<a class="text-grow" href="javascript:;" title="Make Text Larger">Larger</a>
..

class ll.xist.xfind.nthchild

Bases: Selector

An nthchild object is a selector that selects every node that is the n-th child of its parent. E.g. nthchild(0) selects every first child, nthchild(-1) selects each last child. Furthermore nthchild("even") selects each first, third, fifth, … child and nthchild("odd") selects each second, fourth, sixth, … child.

class ll.xist.xfind.nthoftype

Bases: Selector

An nthoftype object is a selector that selects every node that is the n-th node of a specified type among its siblings. Similar to nthchild nthoftype supports negative and positive indices as well as "even" and "odd". Which types are checked can be passed explicitly. If no types are passed the type of the node itself is used:

>>> from ll.xist import xsc, parse, xfind
>>> from ll.xist.ns import xml, html, chars
>>> doc = parse.tree(
...     parse.URL("https://www.python.org/"),
...     parse.Tidy(),
...     parse.NS(html),
...     parse.Node(pool=xsc.Pool(xml, html, chars))
... )
>>> for node in doc.walknodes(xfind.nthoftype(0, html.h2)):
...     print(node.string())
...
<h2 class="widget-title"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-get-started"></span>Get Started</h2>
<h2 class="widget-title"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-download"></span>Download</h2>
<h2 class="widget-title"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-documentation"></span>Docs</h2>
<h2 class="widget-title"><span aria-hidden="true" class="icon-jobs"></span>Jobs</h2>
...