lib/python/Tools/XMLTools.py

   1 import xml.dom.minidom
   2
   3 def elementsWithTag(el, tag):
   4
   5         """filters all elements of childNode with the specified function
   6         example: nodes = elementsWithTag(childNodes, lambda x: x == "bla")"""
   7
   8         # fiiixme! (works but isn't nice)
   9         if isinstance(tag, str):
  10                 s = tag
  11                 tag = lambda x: x == s
  12
  13         for x in el:
  14                 if x.nodeType != xml.dom.minidom.Element.nodeType:
  15                         continue
  16                 if tag(x.tagName):
  17                         yield x
  18
  19 def mergeText(nodelist):
  20         rc = ""
  21         for node in nodelist:
  22                 if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
  23                         rc = rc + node.data
  24         return rc
  25
  26 def stringToXML(text):
  27         return text.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;').replace("'", '&apos;').replace('"', '&quot;')