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# Package cssutils

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cssutils - CSS Cascading Style Sheets library for Python

> Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Christof Hoeke

> cssutils is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

> You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. DOM only, not any rendering facilities!

Based upon and partly implementing the following specifications :

CSS 2.1
  General CSS rules and properties are defined here
CSS 2.1 Errata
  A few errata, mainly the definition of CHARSET_SYM tokens
CSS3 Module: Syntax
  Used in parts since cssutils 0.9.4. cssutils tries to use the features from CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 with preference to CSS3 but as this is not final yet some parts are from CSS 2.1
MediaQueries
  MediaQueries are part of `stylesheets.MediaList` since v0.9.4, used in @import and @media rules.
Namespaces
  Added in v0.9.1, updated to definition in CSSOM in v0.9.4, updated in 0.9.5 for dev version
Selectors
  The selector syntax defined here (and not in CSS 2.1) should be parsable with cssutils (should mind though ;) )
DOM Level 2 Style CSS
  DOM for package css
DOM Level 2 Style Stylesheets
  DOM for package stylesheets
CSSOM
  A few details (mainly the NamespaceRule DOM) is taken from here. Plan is to move implementation to the stuff defined here which is newer but still no REC so might change anytime...

The cssutils tokenizer is a customized implementation of CSS3 Module: Syntax (W3C Working Draft 13 August 2003) which itself is based on the CSS 2.1 tokenizer. It tries to be as compliant as possible but uses some (helpful) parts of the CSS 2.1 tokenizer.

I guess cssutils is neither CSS 2.1 nor CSS 3 compliant but tries to at least be able to parse both grammars including some more real world cases (some CSS hacks are actually parsed and serialized). Both official grammars are not final nor bugfree but still feasible. cssutils aim is not to be fully compliant to any CSS specification (the specifications seem to be in a constant flow anyway) but cssutils should be able to read and write as many as possible CSS stylesheets "in the wild" while at the same time implement the official APIs which are well documented. Some minor extensions are provided as well.

Please visit http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ for more details.

Tested with Python 2.5 on Windows XP.

This library may be used `from cssutils import *` which import subpackages `css` and `stylesheets`, CSSParser and CSSSerializer classes only.

Usage may be:

    >>> from cssutils import *
    >>> parser = CSSParser()
    >>> sheet = parser.parseString(u'a { color: red}')
    >>> print sheet.cssText

Version: 0.9.5rc1 $Id: __init__.py 1333 2008-07-09 13:27:04Z cthedot $

Date: $LastChangedDate:: 2008-07-09 15:27:04 +0200 #$:

Author: Christof Hoeke with contributions by Walter Doerwald

Submodules | [hide private]
cssutils.codec: Python codec for CSS. cssutils.css: Document Object Model Level 2 CSS http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Style-20000927/css.html cssutils.css.csscharsetrule: CSSCharsetRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSCharsetRule. cssutils.css.csscomment: CSSComment is not defined in DOM Level 2 at all but a cssutils defined class only. cssutils.css.cssfontfacerule: CSSFontFaceRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSFontFaceRule. cssutils.css.cssimportrule: CSSImportRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSImportRule. cssutils.css.cssmediarule: CSSMediaRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSMediaRule. cssutils.css.cssnamespacerule: CSSNamespaceRule currently implements http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-namespace/ cssutils.css.csspagerule: CSSPageRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSPageRule. cssutils.css.cssproperties: CSS2Properties (partly!) implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSS2Properties used by CSSStyleDeclaration cssutils.css.cssrule: CSSRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSRule. cssutils.css.cssrulelist: CSSRuleList implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSRuleList. cssutils.css.cssstyledeclaration: CSSStyleDeclaration implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSStyleDeclaration and extends CSS2Properties cssutils.css.cssstylerule: CSSStyleRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSStyleRule. cssutils.css.cssstylesheet: CSSStyleSheet implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSStyleSheet. cssutils.css.cssunknownrule: CSSUnknownRule implements DOM Level 2 CSS CSSUnknownRule. cssutils.css.cssvalue: CSSValue related classes cssutils.css.property: Property is a single CSS property in a CSSStyleDeclaration cssutils.css.selector: Selector is a single Selector of a CSSStyleRule SelectorList. cssutils.css.selectorlist: SelectorList is a list of CSS Selector objects. cssutils.css2productions: productions for CSS 2.1 cssutils.css3productions: productions for CSS 3 cssutils.cssproductions: productions for cssutils based on a mix of CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Syntax productions cssutils.errorhandler: cssutils ErrorHandler cssutils.helper: cssutils helper cssutils.parse': a validating CSSParser cssutils.script: classes and functions used by cssutils scripts cssutils.scripts cssutils.scripts.csscapture: Retrieve all CSS stylesheets including embedded for a given URL. cssutils.scripts.csscombine cssutils.scripts.csscombine': Combine sheets referred to by @import rules in a given CSS proxy sheet into a single new sheet. cssutils.scripts.cssparse: utility script to parse given filenames or string cssutils.serialize: serializer classes for CSS classes cssutils.stylesheets: Document Object Model Level 2 Style Sheets http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/PR-DOM-Level-2-Style-20000927/stylesheets.html cssutils.stylesheets.medialist: MediaList implements DOM Level 2 Style Sheets MediaList. cssutils.stylesheets.mediaquery: MediaQuery, see http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ cssutils.stylesheets.stylesheet: StyleSheet implements DOM Level 2 Style Sheets StyleSheet. cssutils.stylesheets.stylesheetlist: StyleSheetList implements DOM Level 2 Style Sheets StyleSheetList. cssutils.tokenize2: New CSS Tokenizer (a generator) cssutils.util: base classes and helper functions for css and stylesheets packages

Classes | [hide private]
| CSSParser parses a CSS StyleSheet string or file and returns a DOM Level 2 CSS StyleSheet object
| CSSSerializer Methods to serialize a CSSStylesheet and its parts
| DOMImplementationCSS This interface allows the DOM user to create a CSSStyleSheet outside the context of a document.

Functions | [hide private]
getUrls(sheet) Utility function to get all `url(urlstring)` values in `CSSImportRules` and `CSSStyleDeclaration` objects (properties) of given CSSStyleSheet `sheet`. | source code
parseFile(*a, **k) Retrieve and return a CSSStyleSheet from given filename. | source code
parseString(*a, **k) Return parsed CSSStyleSheet from given string cssText. | source code
parseUrl(*a, **k) Retrieve and return a CSSStyleSheet from given href (an URL). | source code
replaceUrls(sheet, replacer) Utility function to replace all `url(urlstring)` values in `CSSImportRules` and `CSSStyleDeclaration` objects (properties) of given CSSStyleSheet `sheet`. | source code
setSerializer(serializer) sets the global serializer used by all class in cssutils | source code

Variables | [hide private]
| _ANYNS = `-1`
| log = `cssutils.log`
| ser = `CSSSerializer()`

Imports: Deprecated, codec, cssproductions, errorhandler, helper, parse, serialize, tokenize2, util, xml

Function Details | [hide private]

### getUrls(sheet) | source code
Utility function to get all `url(urlstring)` values in `CSSImportRules` and `CSSStyleDeclaration` objects (properties) of given CSSStyleSheet `sheet`. This function is a generator. The url values exclude `url(` and `)` and surrounding single or double quotes.

### parseFile(*a, **k) | source code
Retrieve and return a CSSStyleSheet from given filename. Raises errors during retrieving (e.g. IOError). filename of the CSS file to parse, if no `href` is given filename is converted to a (file:) URL and set as `href` of resulting stylesheet. If href is given it is set as `sheet.href`. Either way `sheet.href` is used to resolve e.g. stylesheet imports via @import rules. encoding Value `None` defaults to encoding detection via BOM or an @charset rule. Other values override detected encoding for the sheet at `filename` including any imported sheets. for other parameters see `parseString`

### parseString(*a, **k) | source code
Return parsed CSSStyleSheet from given string cssText. Raises errors during retrieving (e.g. UnicodeDecodeError). cssText CSS string to parse encoding If `None` the encoding will be read from BOM or an @charset rule or defaults to UTF-8. If given overrides any found encoding including the ones for imported sheets. It also will be used to decode `cssText` if given as a (byte) string. href The href attribute to assign to the parsed style sheet. Used to resolve other urls in the parsed sheet like @import hrefs media The media attribute to assign to the parsed style sheet (may be a MediaList, list or a string) title The title attribute to assign to the parsed style sheet

### parseUrl(*a, **k) | source code
Retrieve and return a CSSStyleSheet from given href (an URL). In case of any errors while reading the URL returns None. href URL of the CSS file to parse, will also be set as `href` of resulting stylesheet encoding Value `None` defaults to encoding detection via HTTP, BOM or an @charset rule. A value overrides detected encoding for the sheet at `href` including any imported sheets. for other parameters see `parseString`

### replaceUrls(sheet, replacer) | source code
Utility function to replace all `url(urlstring)` values in `CSSImportRules` and `CSSStyleDeclaration` objects (properties) of given CSSStyleSheet `sheet`. `replacer` must be a function which is called with a single argument `urlstring` which is the current value of url() excluding `url(` and `)` and surrounding single or double quotes.