Split the list view code up in three pieces 1. getListContents which returns the required contents dictionary 2. _list which returns the response for a specified list of contents 3. list which constructs just one content dict and passes it to _list This way it is easier to do step 1 and 2 in other code than list(), which makes it possible to display multiple list pages (by calling getListContents multiple times and passing the result to _list).

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Utilities for XML generation/parsing.

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from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator

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class SimplerXMLGenerator(XMLGenerator):

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    def addQuickElement(self, name, contents=None, attrs=None):

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        "Convenience method for adding an element with no children"

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        if attrs is None: attrs = {}

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        self.startElement(name, attrs)

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        if contents is not None:

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            self.characters(contents)

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        self.endElement(name)