Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
SAX interfaces for Python.
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+"""
+A library of useful helper classes to the sax classes, for the
+convenience of application and driver writers.
+
+$Id$
+"""
+
+import types, string, sys, urllib
+import handler
+
+def escape(data, entities = {}):
+    """Escape &, <, and > in a string of data.
+    You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as 
+    the optional entities parameter.  The keys and values must all be
+    strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.
+    """
+    data = string.replace(data, "&", "&amp;")
+    data = string.replace(data, "<", "&lt;")
+    data = string.replace(data, ">", "&gt;")
+    for chars, entity in entities.items():
+        data = string.replace(data, chars, entity)        
+    return data
+
+class XMLGenerator(handler.ContentHandler):
+
+    def __init__(self, out = sys.stdout):
+        handler.ContentHandler.__init__(self)
+        self._out = out
+
+    # ContentHandler methods
+        
+    def startDocument(self):
+        self._out.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>\n')
+
+    def startPrefixMapping(self, prefix, uri):
+        pass
+
+    def endPrefixMapping(self, prefix):
+        pass
+
+    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
+        if type(name)==type(()):
+            uri, localname, prefix=name
+            name="%s:%s"%(prefix,localname)
+        self._out.write('<' + name)
+        for (name, value) in attrs.items():
+            self._out.write(' %s="%s"' % (name, escape(value)))
+        self._out.write('>')
+
+    def endElement(self, name):
+        # FIXME: not namespace friendly yet
+        self._out.write('</%s>' % name)
+
+    def characters(self, content):
+        self._out.write(escape(content))
+
+    def ignorableWhitespace(self, content):
+        self._out.write(content)
+        
+    def processingInstruction(self, target, data):
+        self._out.write('<?%s %s?>' % (target, data))
+
+class XMLFilterBase:
+    """This class is designed to sit between an XMLReader and the
+    client application's event handlers.  By default, it does nothing
+    but pass requests up to the reader and events on to the handlers
+    unmodified, but subclasses can override specific methods to modify
+    the event stream or the configuration requests as they pass
+    through."""
+
+    # ErrorHandler methods
+
+    def error(self, exception):
+        self._err_handler.error(exception)
+
+    def fatalError(self, exception):
+        self._err_handler.fatalError(exception)
+
+    def warning(self, exception):
+        self._err_handler.warning(exception)
+
+    # ContentHandler methods
+        
+    def setDocumentLocator(self, locator):
+        self._cont_handler.setDocumentLocator(locator)
+        
+    def startDocument(self):
+        self._cont_handler.startDocument()
+
+    def endDocument(self):
+        self._cont_handler.endDocument()
+
+    def startPrefixMapping(self, prefix, uri):
+        self._cont_handler.startPrefixMapping(prefix, uri)
+
+    def endPrefixMapping(self, prefix):
+        self._cont_handler.endPrefixMapping(prefix)
+
+    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
+        self._cont_handler.startElement(name, attrs)
+
+    def endElement(self, name, qname):
+        self._cont_handler.endElement(name, qname)
+
+    def characters(self, content):
+        self._cont_handler.characters(content)
+
+    def ignorableWhitespace(self, chars, start, end):
+        self._cont_handler.ignorableWhitespace(chars, start, end)
+
+    def processingInstruction(self, target, data):
+        self._cont_handler.processingInstruction(target, data)
+
+    def skippedEntity(self, name):
+        self._cont_handler.skippedEntity(name)
+
+    # DTDHandler methods
+
+    def notationDecl(self, name, publicId, systemId):
+        self._dtd_handler.notationDecl(name, publicId, systemId)
+
+    def unparsedEntityDecl(self, name, publicId, systemId, ndata):
+        self._dtd_handler.unparsedEntityDecl(name, publicId, systemId, ndata)
+
+    # EntityResolver methods
+
+    def resolveEntity(self, publicId, systemId):
+        self._ent_handler.resolveEntity(publicId, systemId)
+
+    # XMLReader methods
+
+    def parse(self, source):
+        self._parent.setContentHandler(self)
+        self._parent.setErrorHandler(self)
+        self._parent.setEntityResolver(self)
+        self._parent.setDTDHandler(self)
+        self._parent.parse(source)
+
+    def setLocale(self, locale):
+        self._parent.setLocale(locale)
+    
+    def getFeature(self, name):
+        return self._parent.getFeature(name)
+
+    def setFeature(self, name, state):
+        self._parent.setFeature(name, state)
+
+    def getProperty(self, name):
+        return self._parent.getProperty(name)
+
+    def setProperty(self, name, value):
+        self._parent.setProperty(name, value)
+