[lxml-dev] objectify and processing instructions

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:
> having a piece of xml such as:
> 
> <?xsl-transform href="test.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> <aRoot />
> 
> I can use:
> 
> xmlObject = objectify.fromstring()
> piElement = xmlObject.getprevious()
> 
> but the returned object (differently from an xml object generated with
> etree.fromstring()), is not a processing instruction but an
> ObjectifiedElement, and doesn't seem to give me access to the href and type
> attributes. I'm aware that they are actually a single pseudo-attribute, but
> how do I access it?

Hmmm, without looking into it myself, this sounds like a bug to me. It
shouldn't return an ObjectifiedElement for Processing instructions, a
normal etree PI element should work here (given that there are no children,
for example).

Stefan