Last step of refactoring before adding support for > 1000 entities.
Make helper functions. One extracts list parameters.
One creates links more simply. This is cleaning up the large
function body so I can move stuff around more radically.
Patch by: Dan Bentley
"""
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)