From: Tony Mack <tmack@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:27:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added getDictsByTagName method
X-Git-Tag: sfa-0.9-0@14641~721
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ba7dd01124dd81fc4c0ea0758288123abbc2e69;p=sfa.git

added getDictsByTagName method
---

diff --git a/util/rspec.py b/util/rspec.py
index 6c6c682d..88df71ef 100644
--- 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
+