XCF export error ("'module' object has no attribute 'xml'")

[agb]

On saving I get error message.
Attached.
Windows XP
0.46 pre1

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

The text of the attached error message (so that it is searchable):

File "share\extensions\gimp_xcf.py", line 97, in <module> e.affect()
File "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 154, in affect
self.effect()
File "share\extensions\gimp_xcf.py", line 29, in effect
node = inkex.xml.xpath.Evaluate('/svg',self.document)[0]
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'xml'

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Confirmed on Linux (Fedora core 6), in SVN (rev 17256, Feb 6, 2008).

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

This would seem to be a recent regression...

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

Wow. It appears this effect has never been converted to use lxml. We're relying on old pyxml APIs for XPath.

A quick grep through the share/extensions directory in my SVN checkout indicates that svg_and_media_zip_output.py shares this same problem with gimp_xcf.py. Both of these scripts need to be updated and there may be more. :-( The good news is that the updates are rather simple to do. The patterns of API changes can be found in the change logs for many of the other python extensions that have already been converted.

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

See bug 168533 for the 'save as compressed with media issue'--you are right aaron, it gives exactly the same error in both cases. I'm milestoning it not because it is critical that it be fixed by then, but because if it isn't fixed before 0.46, we should probably just disable these two options....

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

I agree. Must be fixed for 0.46. I'll try to make it happen.

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

I've updated both scripts for lxml in svn. they are both still broken. the xcf script needs some attention to make it work with newer gimp. the zip script crashes inkscape on my machine (I'd like someone else to confirm this please).

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

crash should be fixed now as of 17422

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks Aaron! So it sounds like they're all fixed except the xcf script? Could we simply drop the xcf script from the release, or do you think it's something that can be fixed up within a day or two?

[Aaron C Spike (acspike)]

no, I think the xcf script is fixed now too. works for me. keep in mind that it never worked on win32. (though it may be possible to fix that now if newer gimps have a console exe. I'm not really interested in making it work on win32 though. this was just a hack to fulfill the needs a few linux users expressed on irc.)

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Works well for me under Linux (fedora 8) in rev 17424, opening in gimp version 2.4.4. (Test file included linked image, simple shapes in 2 layers)