xml2xsc – Creating XIST namespaces from XML

Purpose

xml2xsc is a script that generates an XIST namespace module from one or more XML files. xml2xsc will output an XIST element class for each element it encounters in any of the XML files. The attributes and model information xml2xsc assigns to an element will be collected from each occurrence of the element in the XML files, so the XML files should cover as many different cases as possible.

Options

xml2xsc supports the following options:

urls

Zero or more URLs (or filenames) of XML files to be parsed. If no URL is given stdin will be read.

-p <parser>, --parser <parser>

Which XML parser should be used from parsing the XML files? (etree is the default, lxml requires that lxml is installed)

-s <mode>, --shareattrs <mode>

Should attributes be shared among the elements? none means that each element will have its own standalone Attrs class directly derived from ll.xist.xsc.Elements.Attrs. For dupes each attribute that is used by more than one element will be moved into its own Attrs class. For all this will be done for all attributes.

-m <mode>, --model <mode>

Add model information to the namespace. no doesn’t add any model information. simple only adds model = False or model = True (i.e. only the information whether the element must be empty or not). fullall adds a ll.xist.sims model object to each element class. fullonce adds full model information to, but reuses model objects for elements which have the same model.

-x <name>, --defaultxmlns <name>

The default namespace name. All elements that don’t belong to any namespace will be assigned to this namespace.

Example

Suppose we have the following XML file (named foo.xml):

<x a="0"><x b="1"/><y/></x>

Then we can generate a skeleton XIST namespace from it with the following command:

$ xml2xsc foo.xml -xhttp://xmlns.example.org/ -mfullonce

The output will be:

# -*- coding: ascii -*-

from ll.xist import xsc, sims

xmlns = 'http://xmlns.example.org/'

class x(xsc.Element):
        xmlns = xmlns
        class Attrs(xsc.Element.Attrs):
                class a(xsc.TextAttr): pass
                class b(xsc.TextAttr): pass

class y(xsc.Element): xmlns = xmlns

x.model = sims.Elements(y, x)
y.model = sims.Empty()