from news.models import Article from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify from elementtree import ElementTree import datetime, time # Some code from aspn class XmlListConfig(list): def __init__(self, aList): for element in aList: if element: # treat like dict if len(element) == 1 or element[0].tag != element[1].tag: self.append(XmlDictConfig(element)) # treat like list elif element[0].tag == element[1].tag: self.append(XmlListConfig(element)) elif element.text: text = element.text.strip() if text: self.append(text) class XmlDictConfig(dict): ''' Example usage: >>> tree = ElementTree.parse('your_file.xml') >>> root = tree.getroot() >>> xmldict = XmlDictConfig(root) Or, if you want to use an XML string: >>> root = ElementTree.XML(xml_string) >>> xmldict = XmlDictConfig(root) And then use xmldict for what it is... a dict. ''' def __init__(self, parent_element): if parent_element.items(): self.update(dict(parent_element.items())) for element in parent_element: if element: # treat like dict - we assume that if the first two tags # in a series are different, then they are all different. if len(element) == 1 or element[0].tag != element[1].tag: aDict = XmlDictConfig(element) # treat like list - we assume that if the first two tags # in a series are the same, then the rest are the same. else: # here, we put the list in dictionary; the key is the # tag name the list elements all share in common, and # the value is the list itself aDict = {element[0].tag: XmlListConfig(element)} # if the tag has attributes, add those to the dict if element.items(): aDict.update(dict(element.items())) self.update({element.tag: aDict}) # this assumes that if you've got an attribute in a tag, # you won't be having any text. This may or may not be a # good idea -- time will tell. It works for the way we are # currently doing XML configuration files... elif element.items(): self.update({element.tag: dict(element.items())}) # finally, if there are no child tags and no attributes, extract # the text else: self.update({element.tag: element.text}) def fixdate(value): # sql date to datetime return datetime.date(*time.strptime(value, '%Y-%m-%d')[:3]) # get xml data ''' .....
''' tree = ElementTree.parse('news.xml') root = tree.getroot() xmllist=[] a = 0 for i in root: # make list of dicts xmllist = xmllist + [XmlDictConfig(i)] for i in xmllist: # instanciate model slug = slugify(i['heading'])[:50] date = fixdate(i['date']) n = Article(slug=slug,heading=i['heading'],dato=date,summary=i['summary'] or ' ',tekst=i['content'] or ' ') # save model n.save()