Changeset f44b076 in sasview for src/sans/dataloader/readers/xml_reader.py

Timestamp:

Apr 5, 2014 6:28:46 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Jeff Krzywon <jeffery.krzywon@…>

Branches:

master, ESS_GUI, ESS_GUI_Docs, ESS_GUI_batch_fitting, ESS_GUI_bumps_abstraction, ESS_GUI_iss1116, ESS_GUI_iss879, ESS_GUI_iss959, ESS_GUI_opencl, ESS_GUI_ordering, ESS_GUI_sync_sascalc, costrafo411, magnetic_scatt, release-4.1.1, release-4.1.2, release-4.2.2, release_4.0.1, ticket-1009, ticket-1094-headless, ticket-1242-2d-resolution, ticket-1243, ticket-1249, ticket885, unittest-saveload

Children:

201af9f

Parents:

968aa6e

Message:

Added helper functions to the XMLReader for writing to XML

File:

• src/sans/dataloader/readers/xml_reader.py (modified) (1 diff)

src/sans/dataloader/readers/xml_reader.py

@@ -146 +146 @@
         return name
     
+    def create_tree(self, root):
+        """
+        Create an element tree for processing from an XML string
         
+        :param root: XML string 
+        """
+        return etree.ElementTree(root)
+    
+    def create_element(self, name):
+        """
+        Create an XML element for writing to file
+        
+        :param name: The name of the element to be created
+        """
+        return etree.Element(name)
+    
+    def write_text(self, elem, text):
+        """
+        Write text to an etree Element
+        
+        :param elem: etree.Element object
+        :param text: text to write to the element
+        """
+        elem.text = text
+        return elem
+    
+    def write_attribute(self, elem, attr_name, attr_value):
+        """
+        Write attributes to an Element
+        
+        :param elem: etree.Element object
+        :param attr_name: attribute name to write
+        :param attr_value: attribute value to set
+        """
+        attr = elem.attrib
+        attr[attr_name] = attr_value
+