Added xml creation functions

These functions are designed to help create an xml document.
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Bryan Schumaker 2010-11-12 20:46:19 -05:00
parent 2b2cd7e805
commit d35468ba19
1 changed files with 18 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ def attributes(node):
attrs[item.name] = item.nodeValue
return attrs
def children(doc):
list = []
for node in doc.childNodes:
@ -19,25 +18,38 @@ def children(doc):
list += [node]
return list
def child(doc):
list = children(doc)
if len(list) > 0:
return list[0]
return None
def add_child(doc, node, name):
child = doc.createElement(name)
node.appendChild(child)
return child
def add_text(doc, node, value):
if value.__class__ == int or value.__class__ == long:
value = str(value)
elif value.__class__ == unicode:
value = value.encode("utf-8")
try:
child = doc.createTextNode( value )
node.appendChild(child)
return value
except:
print value, value.__class__
def get_elements(doc, tag):
return doc.getElementsByTagName(tag)
def find_attribute(doc, tag, attr, value):
for node in get_elements(doc, tag):
if attributes(node)[attr] == value:
return node
return None
def find_preferred_attribute(doc, tag, attr, values):
for value in values:
attr = find_attribute(doc, tag, attr, value)
@ -45,6 +57,8 @@ def find_preferred_attribute(doc, tag, attr, values):
return attr
None
def new():
return xml.Document()
def parse(xml_file):
return xml.parse(xml_file)