CellMLToNektar.validator.LxmlRelaxngValidator Class Reference

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Public Member Functions
def	__init__
def	validate
def	quit

Private Attributes
	_validator

Detailed Description

A RELAX NG validator built on top of lxml (http://lxml.de/validation.html#relaxng).
Can validate against schemas written in the XML syntax.

Definition at line 215 of file validator.py.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def CellMLToNektar.validator.LxmlRelaxngValidator.__init__	(		self,
			schemaBase
	)

Initialise the RELAX NG validator.

Parses the schema into memory, and constructs lxml's validator object.
We are passed the path to the schema with no extension.

Definition at line 220 of file validator.py.

    def __init__(self, schemaBase):
        """Initialise the RELAX NG validator.
        
        Parses the schema into memory, and constructs lxml's validator object.
        We are passed the path to the schema with no extension.
        """
        try:
            from lxml import etree
        except ImportError, e:
            raise ValidatorError("Unable to import lxml: " + str(e))
        fp = open(schemaBase + '.rng', 'r')
        schema_doc = etree.parse(fp)
        self._validator = etree.RelaxNG(schema_doc)