# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # copyright 2003-2011 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved. # contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr # # This file is part of logilab-common. # # logilab-common is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under # the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free # Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any # later version. # # logilab-common is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS # FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more # details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along # with logilab-common. If not, see . """XML utilities. This module contains useful functions for parsing and using XML data. For the moment, there is only one function that can parse the data inside a processing instruction and return a Python dictionary. """ __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en" import re RE_DOUBLE_QUOTE = re.compile('([\w\-\.]+)="([^"]+)"') RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE = re.compile("([\w\-\.]+)='([^']+)'") def parse_pi_data(pi_data): """ Utility function that parses the data contained in an XML processing instruction and returns a dictionary of keywords and their associated values (most of the time, the processing instructions contain data like ``keyword="value"``, if a keyword is not associated to a value, for example ``keyword``, it will be associated to ``None``). :param pi_data: data contained in an XML processing instruction. :type pi_data: unicode :returns: Dictionary of the keywords (Unicode strings) associated to their values (Unicode strings) as they were defined in the data. :rtype: dict """ results = {} for elt in pi_data.split(): if RE_DOUBLE_QUOTE.match(elt): kwd, val = RE_DOUBLE_QUOTE.match(elt).groups() elif RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE.match(elt): kwd, val = RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE.match(elt).groups() else: kwd, val = elt, None results[kwd] = val return results