Rivista/xml/xslt.py

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
class XmlXslt:
"""This is a patch function to append XSLT reference to XML."""
"""Why is there no built-in function of ElementTree or LXML?"""
def append_stylesheet(xml_data, type):
# Register namespace in order to avoide ns0:
if type == 'atom': ET.register_namespace('', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom')
# Load XML from string
tree = ET.fromstring(xml_data)
# The following direction removes the XML declaration
xml_data_without_a_declaration = ET.tostring(tree, encoding='unicode')
# Add XML declaration and stylesheet
xml_data_declaration = (
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
'<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xsl/{}.xsl"?>'.format(type) +
xml_data_without_a_declaration)
return xml_data_declaration