Doc/lib/minidom-example.py

   1 import xml.dom.minidom
   2
   3 document = """\
   4 <slideshow>
   5 <title>Demo slideshow</title>
   6 <slide><title>Slide title</title>
   7 <point>This is a demo</point>
   8 <point>Of a program for processing slides</point>
   9 </slide>
  10
  11 <slide><title>Another demo slide</title>
  12 <point>It is important</point>
  13 <point>To have more than</point>
  14 <point>one slide</point>
  15 </slide>
  16 </slideshow>
  17 """
  18
  19 dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document)
  20
  21 def getText(nodelist):
  22     rc = ""
  23     for node in nodelist:
  24         if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
  25             rc = rc + node.data
  26     return rc
  27
  28 def handleSlideshow(slideshow):
  29     print "<html>"
  30     handleSlideshowTitle(slideshow.getElementsByTagName("title")[0])
  31     slides = slideshow.getElementsByTagName("slide")
  32     handleToc(slides)
  33     handleSlides(slides)
  34     print "</html>"
  35
  36 def handleSlides(slides):
  37     for slide in slides:
  38         handleSlide(slide)
  39
  40 def handleSlide(slide):
  41     handleSlideTitle(slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0])
  42     handlePoints(slide.getElementsByTagName("point"))
  43
  44 def handleSlideshowTitle(title):
  45     print "<title>%s</title>" % getText(title.childNodes)
  46
  47 def handleSlideTitle(title):
  48     print "<h2>%s</h2>" % getText(title.childNodes)
  49
  50 def handlePoints(points):
  51     print "<ul>"
  52     for point in points:
  53         handlePoint(point)
  54     print "</ul>"
  55
  56 def handlePoint(point):
  57     print "<li>%s</li>" % getText(point.childNodes)
  58
  59 def handleToc(slides):
  60     for slide in slides:
  61         title = slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]
  62         print "<p>%s</p>" % getText(title.childNodes)
  63
  64 handleSlideshow(dom)