Look at the examples below to see how the API works
>>> html = """
... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
... <bookstore>
... <book category="COOKING">
... <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
... <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
... <year>2005</year>
... <price>30.00</price>
... </book>
... <book category="CHILDREN">
... <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
... <author>J K. Rowling</author>
... <year>2005</year>
... <price>29.99</price>
... </book>
... <book category="WEB">
... <title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title>
... <author>James McGovern</author>
... <author>Per Bothner</author>
... <author>Kurt Cagle</author>
... <author>James Linn</author>
... <author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author>
... <year>2003</year>
... <price>49.99</price>
... </book>
... <book category="WEB">
... <title lang="en">Learning XML</title>
... <author>Erik T. Ray</author>
... <year>2003</year>
... <price>39.95</price>
... </book>
... </bookstore>
... """
>>> spoon = Spoon(html)
>>> print spoon.bookstore.book[1].title
Harry Potter
>>> len(spoon.bookstore.book)
4
>>> for book in spoon.bookstore.book(category="WEB"):
... print book.title
XQuery Kick Start
Learning XML
>>> spoon._.author[4]
<author>Kurt Cagle</author>
>>> books = spoon.bookstore.book
>>> print books(books.price > 40).title
XQuery Kick Start
>>> print (books.author == "Erik T. Ray")._parent.title
Learning XML
>>> len(books(books.year == 2003))
2
>>> print books(lambda souptag: souptag["category"] == "COOKING").title
Everyday Italian
>>> query = LazySpoon().bookstore.book[0].author.inner_html()
>>> print "\\n".join([str(c) for c in query.__calls__])
(<built-in function getattr>, ('bookstore',), {})
(<built-in function getattr>, ('book',), {})
(<built-in function getitem>, (0,), {})
(<built-in function getattr>, ('author',), {})
(<built-in function getattr>, ('inner_html',), {})
(<built-in function apply>, (), {})
>>> query.evaluate(spoon)
'Giada De Laurentiis'