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<h1 class="epydoc">Class XMLParser</h1><p class="nomargin-top"></p>
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<a href="lxml.etree._BaseParser-class.html" onclick="show_private();">_BaseParser</a> --+    
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<dl><dt>Known Subclasses:</dt>
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<li><a href="lxml.etree.ETCompatXMLParser-class.html">ETCompatXMLParser</a></li><li class="private">, <a href="lxml.html.XHTMLParser-class.html" onclick="show_private();">html.XHTMLParser</a></li>  </ul>
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<p>XMLParser(self, encoding=None, attribute_defaults=False, dtd_validation=False, load_dtd=False, no_network=True, ns_clean=False, recover=False, XMLSchema schema=None, remove_blank_text=False, resolve_entities=True, remove_comments=False, remove_pis=False, strip_cdata=True, target=None, compact=True)</p>
<p>The XML parser.</p>
<p>Parsers can be supplied as additional argument to various parse
functions of the lxml API.  A default parser is always available
and can be replaced by a call to the global function
'set_default_parser'.  New parsers can be created at any time
without a major run-time overhead.</p>
<p>The keyword arguments in the constructor are mainly based on the
libxml2 parser configuration.  A DTD will also be loaded if DTD
validation or attribute default values are requested (unless you
additionally provide an XMLSchema from which the default
attributes can be read).</p>
<p>Available boolean keyword arguments:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="rst-first">attribute_defaults - inject default attributes from DTD or XMLSchema</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">dtd_validation     - validate against a DTD referenced by the document</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">load_dtd           - use DTD for parsing</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">no_network         - prevent network access for related files (default: True)</p>
</li>
<li><p class="rst-first">ns_clean           - clean up redundant namespace declarations</p>
</li>
<li><p class="rst-first">recover            - try hard to parse through broken XML</p>
</li>
<li><p class="rst-first">remove_blank_text  - discard blank text nodes</p>
</li>
<li><p class="rst-first">remove_comments    - discard comments</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">remove_pis         - discard processing instructions</p>
</li>
<li><p class="rst-first">strip_cdata        - replace CDATA sections by normal text content (default: True)</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">compact            - safe memory for short text content (default: True)</p>
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<li><p class="rst-first">resolve_entities   - replace entities by their text value (default: True)</p>
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<li><dl class="rst-first rst-docutils">
<dt>huge_tree          - disable security restrictions and support very deep trees</dt>
<dd><p class="rst-first rst-last">and very long text content (only affects libxml2 2.7+)</p>
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<p>Other keyword arguments:</p>
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<li>encoding - override the document encoding</li>
<li>target   - a parser target object that will receive the parse events</li>
<li>schema   - an XMLSchema to validate against</li>
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<p>Note that you should avoid sharing parsers between threads.  While this is
not harmful, it is more efficient to use separate parsers.  This does not
apply to the default parser.</p>

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        <span class="sig-arg">strip_cdata</span>=<span class="sig-default">True</span>,
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