Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"""
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)