pywbem.tupletree

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     18  # Author: Martin Pool <mbp@hp.com>
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     20
     21  """
     22  tupletree - Convert XML DOM objects to and from tuple trees.
     23
     24  DOM is the standard in-memory representation of XML documents, but it
     25  is very cumbersome for some types of processing where XML encodes
     26  object structures rather than text documents.  Direct mapping to Python
     27  classes may not be a good match either.
     28
     29  tupletrees may be created from an in-memory DOM using
     30  dom_to_tupletree(), or from a string using xml_to_tupletree().
     31
     32  Since the Python XML libraries deal mostly with Unicode strings they
     33  are also returned here.  If plain Strings are passed in they will be
     34  converted by xmldom.
     35
     36  Each node of the tuple tree is a Python 4-tuple, corresponding to an
     37  XML Element (i.e. <tag>):
     38
     39    (NAME, ATTRS, CONTENTS, None)
     40
     41  The NAME is the name of the element.
     42
     43  The ATTRS are a name-value hash of element attributes.
     44
     45  The CONTENTS is a list of child elements.
     46
     47  The fourth element is reserved.
     48  """
     49
     50  from types import StringTypes
     51  import xml.dom.minidom
     52
     53  __all__ = ['dom_to_tupletree', 'xml_to_tupletree']
     54
     55 -def dom_to_tupletree(node):
     56      """Convert a DOM object to a pyRXP-style tuple tree.
     57
     58      Each element is a 4-tuple of (NAME, ATTRS, CONTENTS, None).
     59
     60      Very nice for processing complex nested trees.
     61      """
     62
     63      if node.nodeType == node.DOCUMENT_NODE:
     64          # boring; pop down one level
     65          return dom_to_tupletree(node.firstChild)
     66      assert node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
     67
     68      name = node.nodeName
     69      attrs = {}
     70      contents = []
     71
     72      for child in node.childNodes:
     73          if child.nodeType == child.ELEMENT_NODE:
     74              contents.append(dom_to_tupletree(child))
     75          elif child.nodeType == child.TEXT_NODE:
     76              assert isinstance(child.nodeValue, StringTypes), \
     77                     "text node %s is not a string" % `child`
     78              contents.append(child.nodeValue)
     79          elif child.nodeType == child.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
     80              contents.append(child.nodeValue)
     81          else:
     82              raise RuntimeError("can't handle %s" % child)
     83
     84      for i in range(node.attributes.length):
     85          attr_node = node.attributes.item(i)
     86          attrs[attr_node.nodeName] = attr_node.nodeValue
     87
     88      # XXX: Cannot yet handle comments, cdata, processing instructions and
     89      # other XML batshit.
     90
     91      # it's so easy in retrospect!
     92      return (name, attrs, contents, None)
     93
     94
     95 -def xml_to_tupletree(xml_string):
     96      """Parse XML straight into tupletree."""
     97      dom_xml = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml_string)
     98      return dom_to_tupletree(dom_xml)
     99