SGML to Python memory tree

[François Pinard]

Hi, gang.  Once started on sharing little pieces of code :-).

For the Translation Project, I have some Python code that reads `nsgmls'
output into a memory tree.  It does not process attributes, as I did
not have any in my little application.  This code is surprisingly short,
given what it does.  (It had to work for Python 1.5.1, that's why it works
around the missing `LIST.pop()').


def _(text):
    return text

def read_sgml_file(name):
    stack = []
    current = []
    # Avoid docbk30, which raises some unanalysed interference.
    for line in os.popen('SGML_CATALOG_FILES= nsgmls %s' % name).readlines():
        if line[0] == '(':
            stack.append(current)
            current = [string.lower(line[1:-1])]
            continue
        if line[0] == ')':
            element = tuple(current)
            current = stack[-1]
            del stack[-1]
            current.append(element)
            continue
        if line[0] == '-':
            line = line[1:-1]
            line = string.replace(line, '\\n', '\n')
            line = string.replace(line, '\\011', '\t')
            line = string.rstrip(line)
            current.append(line)
            continue
        if line[0] == 'C':
            return current[0]
    sys.stderr.write(_("SGML in `%s' is not conformant.\n") % name)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard