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# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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"""XML externalization support."""
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# "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't
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# using enough of it." -- various
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__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2005 Canonical Ltd."
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__author__ = "Martin Pool <mbp@canonical.com>"
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def ElementTree(*args, **kwargs):
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if _ElementTree is None:
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from cElementTree import ElementTree
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from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree
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_ElementTree = ElementTree
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return _ElementTree(*args, **kwargs)
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def Element(*args, **kwargs):
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from cElementTree import Element
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from elementtree.ElementTree import Element
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return _Element(*args, **kwargs)
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def SubElement(*args, **kwargs):
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if _SubElement is None:
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from cElementTree import SubElement
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from elementtree.ElementTree import SubElement
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_SubElement = SubElement
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return _SubElement(*args, **kwargs)
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from trace import mutter
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raise Exception("XMLMixin.to_element must be overridden in concrete classes")
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def write_xml(self, f):
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ElementTree(self.to_element()).write(f, 'utf-8')
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return cls.from_element(ElementTree().parse(f))
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read_xml = classmethod(read_xml)