cmsHarvester.DBSXMLHandler Class Reference

Helper class: DBSXMLHandler. More...

Inheritance diagram for cmsHarvester.DBSXMLHandler:

Public Member Functions
def	__init__
def	characters
def	check_results_validity
def	current_element
def	endElement
def	startElement

Public Attributes
	current_value
	element_position
	results
	tag_names

Static Public Attributes
dictionary	mapping

Detailed Description

Helper class: DBSXMLHandler.

XML handler class to parse DBS results.

The tricky thing here is that older DBS versions (2.0.5 and
earlier) return results in a different XML format than newer
versions. Previously the result values were returned as attributes
to the `result' element. The new approach returns result values as
contents of named elements.

The old approach is handled directly in startElement(), the new
approach in characters().

NOTE: All results are returned in the form of string values of
      course!

Definition at line 185 of file cmsHarvester.py.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

def cmsHarvester.DBSXMLHandler.__init__	(		self,
			tag_names
	)

Definition at line 218 of file cmsHarvester.py.

    def __init__(self, tag_names):
        # This is a list used as stack to keep track of where we are
        # in the element tree.
        self.element_position = []
        self.tag_names = tag_names
        self.results = {}