diff --git a/scrapy/contrib_exp/loader/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib_exp/loader/__init__.py
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index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib_exp/loader/lxmlloader.py b/scrapy/contrib_exp/loader/lxmlloader.py
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index 724e7c43c..000000000
--- a/scrapy/contrib_exp/loader/lxmlloader.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-from lxml import html, etree
-
-from scrapy.contrib.loader import ItemLoader
-
-
-class LxmlItemLoader(ItemLoader):
-
- def __init__(self, response, item=None, **context):
- self.tree = html.fromstring(response.body_as_unicode())
- context.update(response=response)
- super(LxmlItemLoader, self).__init__(item, **context)
-
- def add_xpath(self, field_name, xpath):
- self.add_value(field_name, self._get_xpath(xpath))
-
- def replace_xpath(self, field_name, xpath):
- self.replace_value(field_name, self._get_xpath(xpath))
-
- def _get_xpath(self, xpath):
- return self._get_values(self.tree.xpath(xpath))
-
- def add_css(self, field_name, css):
- self.add_value(field_name, self._get_css(css))
-
- def replace_css(self, field_name, css):
- self.replace_value(field_name, self._get_css(css))
-
- def _get_css(self, css):
- return self._get_values(self.tree.cssselect(css))
-
- def _get_values(self, elems):
- for e in elems:
- yield etree.tostring(e) if isinstance(e, etree.ElementBase) else e
-
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_exp_loader_lxmlloader.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_exp_loader_lxmlloader.py
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index 1980648c1..000000000
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_exp_loader_lxmlloader.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-from twisted.trial import unittest
-
-from scrapy.contrib.loader.processor import MapCompose
-from scrapy.item import Item, Field
-from scrapy.http import HtmlResponse
-
-try:
- import lxml
-except ImportError:
- lxml = False
-
-
-class TestItem(Item):
- name = Field()
-
-
-if lxml:
- from scrapy.contrib_exp.loader.lxmlloader import LxmlItemLoader
-
- class TestLxmlItemLoader(LxmlItemLoader):
- default_item_class = TestItem
-
-
-class LxmlItemLoaderTest(unittest.TestCase):
- response = HtmlResponse(url="", body='marta
paragraph
')
-
- def setUp(self):
- if not lxml:
- raise unittest.SkipTest("lxml is not available")
-
- def test_constructor_with_response(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- self.assert_(l.tree)
-
- def test_add_xpath(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- l.add_xpath('name', '//div')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'marta
'])
-
- def test_add_xpath_text(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- l.add_xpath('name', '//div/text()')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'marta'])
-
- def test_replace_xpath(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- l.add_xpath('name', '//div/text()')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'marta'])
- l.replace_xpath('name', '//p/text()')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'paragraph'])
-
- def test_add_css(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- l.add_css('name', '#id')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'marta
'])
-
- def test_replace_css(self):
- l = TestLxmlItemLoader(response=self.response)
- l.add_css('name', '#id')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'marta
'])
- l.replace_css('name', 'p')
- self.assertEqual(l.get_output_value('name'), [u'paragraph
'])
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
- unittest.main()
-