return cls.from_file(StringIO(xml), *args, **kwargs)
@classmethod
- def from_file(cls, xmlfile, swap_endlines=False, parse_dublincore=True, preserve_lines=True):
+ def from_file(cls, xmlfile, swap_endlines=False, parse_dublincore=True):
# first, prepare for parsing
if isinstance(xmlfile, basestring):
if not isinstance(data, unicode):
data = data.decode('utf-8')
- if swap_endlines:
- sub = u'<br/>'
- if preserve_lines:
- sub += u'\n'
- data = cls.LINE_SWAP_EXPR.sub(sub, data)
+ data = data.replace(u'\ufeff', '')
try:
parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=False)
- return cls(etree.parse(StringIO(data), parser), parse_dublincore=parse_dublincore)
+ tree = etree.parse(StringIO(data.encode('utf-8')), parser)
+
+ if swap_endlines:
+ cls.swap_endlines(tree)
+
+ return cls(tree, parse_dublincore=parse_dublincore)
except (ExpatError, XMLSyntaxError, XSLTApplyError), e:
raise ParseError(e)
+ @classmethod
+ def swap_endlines(cls, tree):
+ # only swap inside stanzas
+ for elem in tree.iter('strofa'):
+ for child in list(elem):
+ if child.tail:
+ chunks = cls.LINE_SWAP_EXPR.split(child.tail)
+ ins_index = elem.index(child) + 1
+ while len(chunks) > 1:
+ ins = etree.Element('br')
+ ins.tail = chunks.pop()
+ elem.insert(ins_index, ins)
+ child.tail = chunks.pop(0)
+ if elem.text:
+ chunks = cls.LINE_SWAP_EXPR.split(elem.text)
+ while len(chunks) > 1:
+ ins = etree.Element('br')
+ ins.tail = chunks.pop()
+ elem.insert(0, ins)
+ elem.text = chunks.pop(0)
+
def chunk(self, path):
# convert the path to XPath
expr = self.path_to_xpath(path)