René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Documentation: ","articleBody":"http://stix.readthedocs.org/en/stable/getting_started.html#parsing-stix-xml\n\nI was reading this in the context of parsing STIX out of a libtaxii object. I think it would be nice if the example included getting a handle on a STIX document out of libtaxii.\n\nFor instance, take this stub Inbox Message:\n\n``` xml\n\u003ctaxii_11:Inbox_Message xmlns:taxii_11=\"http://taxii.mitre.org/messages/taxii_xml_binding-1.1\"\n    message_id=\"1\"\u003e\n    \u003ctaxii_11:Content_Block\u003e\n        \u003ctaxii_11:Content_Binding binding_id=\"urn:stix.mitre.org:xml:1.1.1\"/\u003e\n        \u003ctaxii_11:Content\u003e\n            \u003cstix:STIX_Package xmlns:stix=\"http://stix.mitre.org/stix-1\" version=\"1.1.1\"/\u003e\n        \u003c/taxii_11:Content\u003e\n    \u003c/taxii_11:Content_Block\u003e\n\u003c/taxii_11:Inbox_Message\u003e\n```\n\nTo get a libtaxii handle on the message, you'd do (I did not double check to see if this is well documented or not, so perhaps there's a corresponding issue for libtaxii...):\n\n``` python\nimport libtaxii.messages_11 as tm11\ntaxii_xml = '\u003ctaxii_11:Inbox_Message\u003e...\u003c/taxii_11:Inbox_Message\u003e' # Use the above XML\nmsg = tm11.InboxMessage.from_xml(taxii_xml)\n# This prints out the STIX XML\nprint msg.content_blocks[0].content\n```\n\nHowever, there's no obvious/documented connection to how to get a `stix.core.STIXPackage` object from here. I ended up with:\n\n``` python\nfrom StringIO import StringIO\nfrom stix.core import STIXPackage\npackage = STIXPackage(StringIO(msg.content_blocks[0].content))\n# \u003cstix.core.stix_package.STIXPackage object at 0x7f6d19d6a5d0\u003e\n```\n\nThis issue has a couple items:\n1. Is this right? Or is there a cleaner way to go from `libtaxii` to `python-stix`\n2. Whatever the \"right\" way is, it probably makes sense to add it to RTD\n3. If it makes sense, I could add a mechanism to libtaxii to get the content etree directly (currently possible, but hacky).\n\nThank you.\n-Mark\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/MarkDavidson","@type":"Person","name":"MarkDavidson"},"datePublished":"2015-04-06T16:43:01.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/250/python-stix/issues/250"}