# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """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 dictionnary. :copyright: 2009 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved. :contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr :license: General Public License version 2 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses """ __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en" import re RE_DOUBLE_QUOTE = re.compile('([\w\-\.]+)="([^"]+)"') RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE = re.compile("([\w\-\.]+)='([^']+)'") def parse_pi_data(pi_data): """ Utilitary function that parses the data contained in an XML processing instruction and returns a dictionnary 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: Dictionnary 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