First phase of making the / (site/home) view generic enough to use it for Sponsor "home" page, Program "home" page, Organization "home" page, etc. when combined with HomeSettings. First phase of addressing this issue: http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=64 by factoring "Site Settings" apart from the site/home stuff. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/1405

"""
Utilities for XML generation/parsing.
"""

from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator

class SimplerXMLGenerator(XMLGenerator):
    def addQuickElement(self, name, contents=None, attrs=None):
        "Convenience method for adding an element with no children"
        if attrs is None: attrs = {}
        self.startElement(name, attrs)
        if contents is not None:
            self.characters(contents)
        self.endElement(name)