Cobalt

Cobalt is a lightweight Python library for working with Akoma Ntoso Act documents. It makes it easy to work with Akoma Ntoso metadata, FRBR URIs and generate Tables of Contents for a document.

It is lightweight because most operations are done on the XML document directly without intermediate objects. You still need to understand how Akoma Ntoso works.

Contribute to Cobalt on GitHub at github.com/Code4SA/cobalt.

Quickstart

Install using:

$ pip install cobalt

Use it like this:

>>> from cobalt import Act
>>> act = Act()
>>> act.title = "Act 10 of 1980"
>>> act.frbr_uri = "/za/act/1980/10"
>>> act.year
'1980'
>>> act.number
'10'
>>> print act.to_xml()
[ lots of xml ]

Contributing

1. Clone the repo

2. Install development dependencies:

   pip install -e .[dev]
   

3. Make your changes

4. Run tests:

   nosetests && flake8
   

5. Send a pull request

Contents

• cobalt
  • Acts
  • FRBR URIs
  • Rendering

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page