added getDictsByTagName method

diff --git a/util/rspec.py b/util/rspec.py
index 6c6c682..88df71e 100644 (file)
--- a/util/rspec.py
+++ b/util/rspec.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class Rspec():
             node[attr] = attributeDom.attributes.get(attr).value
         return node
 
-
+    
     def toDict(self, nodeDom = None):
         """
        convert this rspec to a dict and return it.
@@ -134,5 +134,24 @@ class Rspec():
        return rootNode
 
     def parseDict(self, rdict, include_doc = True):
+       """
+       Convert a dictionary into a dom object and store it.
+       """
        self.rootNode = self.dict2dom(rdict, include_doc)
 
+
+    def getDictsByTagName(self, tagname, dom = None):
+       """
+       Search the dom for all elements with the specified tagname
+       and return them as a list of dicts
+       """
+       if not dom:
+           dom = self.rootNode
+       dicts = []
+       doms = dom.getElementsByTagName(tagname)
+       dictlist = [self.toDict(d) for d in doms]
+       for item in dictlist:
+           for value in item.values():
+               dicts.append(value)
+       return dicts
+