Index: trunk/src/services/XMLtoJSON.py
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+#! /usr/bin/python
+
+"""
+    Some code (the sax parser part) was taken and modified from:
+    http://code.activestate.com/recipes/415983/ <- original code.
+    Reference to website's license: http://code.activestate.com/help/terms/
+    
+"""
+
+from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler
+from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator
+from xml.sax.xmlreader import XMLReader
+from xml.sax import make_parser
+from os import listdir
+
+class ArtifactHandler(ContentHandler):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.curr = ''
+        self.parent = ''
+        self.count = 0
+        self.d = {}
+        self.currd = {}
+        self.parentd = {}
+        self.stack = []
+        self.stack2 = []
+
+    def updateChild(self, chlddict, chld, name):
+        if chlddict.has_key(name):
+            chlddict[name] = self.getList(chlddict[name])
+            (chlddict[name]).append(chld[name])
+        else:
+            chlddict.update(chld)
+            
+    def getList(self, dlist):
+        if isinstance(dlist, list):
+            return dlist
+        return [dlist]
+
+    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
+        if self.count == 0:
+            self.parent = name
+            self.d[name] = dict(attrs)
+            self.currd = self.d
+        else:
+            chld = {name: dict(attrs)}
+            self.parent = self.stack[-1]
+            self.parentd = self.stack2[-1]
+            chlddict = self.parentd[self.parent]
+            self.updateChild(chlddict, chld, name)
+            self.currd = chld
+
+        self.stack.append(name)
+        self.stack2.append(self.currd)
+
+        self.curr = name
+        self.count += 1
+
+    def endElement(self, name):
+        self.stack.remove(name)
+        for item in self.stack2:
+            if item.has_key(name):
+                self.stack2.remove(item)
+    
+    def addTextValue(self, my, content):
+        currcontent = ""
+        myd = self.getDict(my)
+        if myd.has_key("textvalue"):
+            currcontent = "".join((currcontent, myd["textvalue"]))
+        myd["textvalue"] = "".join((currcontent, content))
+            
+    def getDict(self, my):
+        if isinstance(my, dict):
+            return my
+        return my[-1]
+
+    def characters(self, content):
+        content = (content.encode('utf-8')).strip()
+        if content and len(content) > 0:
+            myd = self.parentd[self.parent]
+            self.addTextValue(myd[self.curr], content)
+
+def readXML(filename):
+    parser = initParser()
+    parser.parse(filename)
+
+def initParser():
+    handler = ArtifactHandler()
+    parser = make_parser()
+    parser.setContentHandler(handler)
+    return parser
+
+def formatReadXML(path):
+    for filename in listdir(path):
+        if filename.find(".xml") != -1:
+            readXML("".join((path, filename)))
+    
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    for i in range(100):
+        formatReadXML("../testdata/artifacts/")    
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