Question : Read a text file and write an XML out of it :D

Hi, I just began Python (20 minutes ago) and I've read two tutorials and now I would need a headstart with what I need to do so I can then modify it with what I've leart so far.

So What I want to do is read a text file with approximatively this:
...
(gibberish)
(more gibberish)
...
MODULES
{
MD 0x002E IMG 0 243 47 14 18 "Car1"
MD 0x002F IMG 0 223 57 16 18 "Car2"
...
}
(gibberish)

and write an XML file starting from the word 'MODULES', so it would look like this:

243
47

223
57

...

I heard there are already scripts existing on the internet but I can't find them

Thanks!

Georges

Answer : Read a text file and write an XML out of it :D

Try this...

                       
         
           
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             import os, sys
import xml.dom.minidom
 
f=file(sys.argv[1])
result = file(sys.argv[2],"w")
 
doc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
root=doc.createElementNS("", "someURIs")
doc.appendChild(doc.createProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet",
	"type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"multiple_input3.xsl\""))
doc.appendChild(root)
 
# read lines from in file
for line in f.readlines():
	node = doc.createElementNS("", "file")
	node.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(line))
	root.appendChild(node)
	
# write result
result.write(doc.toprettyxml(indent="  ",encoding="ISO-8859-1"))

           
         

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