# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under # the terms of the (LGPL) GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your # option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS # FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library Lesser General Public License # for more details at ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html ). # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # written by: Jeff Ortel ( jortel@redhat.com ) """ Provides XML I{special character} encoder classes. """ import re class Encoder: """ An XML special character encoder/decoder. @cvar encodings: A mapping of special characters encoding. @type encodings: [(str, str),...] @cvar decodings: A mapping of special characters decoding. @type decodings: [(str, str),...] @cvar special: A list of special characters. @type special: [char,...] """ encodings = ( ("&(?!(amp|lt|gt|quot|apos);)", "&"), ("<", "<"), (">", ">"), ('"', """), ("'", "'")) decodings = ( ("<", "<"), (">", ">"), (""", '"'), ("'", "'"), ("&", "&")) special = ("&", "<", ">", '"', "'") def encode(self, s): """ Encode special characters found in string I{s}. @param s: A string to encode. @type s: str @return: The encoded string. @rtype: str """ if isinstance(s, str) and self.__needs_encoding(s): for x in self.encodings: s = re.sub(x[0], x[1], s) return s def decode(self, s): """ Decode special characters encodings found in string I{s}. @param s: A string to decode. @type s: str @return: The decoded string. @rtype: str """ if isinstance(s, str) and "&" in s: for x in self.decodings: s = s.replace(x[0], x[1]) return s def __needs_encoding(self, s): """ Get whether string I{s} contains special characters. @param s: A string to check. @type s: str @return: True if needs encoding. @rtype: boolean """ if isinstance(s, str): for c in self.special: if c in s: return True