XmlWriter — Converts in-memory ADMIT objects to XML format.

This module defines the main XML writer class for ADMIT.

class admit.xmlio.XmlWriter.XmlWriter(clss, order, btype, root, keys=None)

XML Writer class.

Class for writing out xml instances of both ATs and BDPs.

Parameters:

clss : various

The class to be written out in XML.

order : list

The order items are written in.

btype : dict

Dictionary of the data type for each item.

root : elementtree node

The root node to attach to.

keys : list

A list of the keywords for an AT. Default: None.

Attributes

None

Methods

write(attr, item, btype, root, typ)	Method to write out an individual item to XML
writexml(clss, order, btype, root, keys)	Method to loop through all data members in the dtd and write them to XML

write(attr, item, btype, root, typ)

Method to write out an individual item to XML

Parameters:

attr : various

The value of the item to write out

item : str

The name of the item to write out

btype : dict

Dictionary of the data types for each item

root : elementtree

The root node to attach to

typ : str

String containing the type of class being written out. Used only for error messages

Returns:

None

writexml(clss, order, btype, root, keys)

Method to loop through all data members in the dtd and write them to XML

Parameters:

clss : various

The class to be written out in XML

order : list

The order items are written in

btype : dict

Dictionary of the data type for each item

root : elementtree node

The root node to attach to

keys : list

A list of the keywrods for an AT

Returns:

None