logilab.common.xmlutils

Module xmlutils

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.

Functions

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``).

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Variables

RE_DOUBLE_QUOTE = re.compile('([\w\-\.]+)="([^"]+)"')

RE_SIMPLE_QUOTE = re.compile("([\w\-\.]+)='([^']+)'")

Function Details

parse_pi_data(pi_data)

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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