January 24, 2014 16:02 · Jan 24, 2014
diff --git a/xml2dict.py b/xml2dict.py
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+from functools import wraps
+from xml.etree import cElementTree as etree
+
+def coroutine(func):
+    @wraps(func)
+    def start(*args, **kwargs):
+        cr = func(*args, **kwargs)
+        cr.next()
+        return cr
+
+    return start
+
+
+@coroutine
+def builder(root):
+    def process(parent, current, ctag, event, v1, v2):
+        if event == 'start':
+            tag = v1
+            if tag[0] == '{':
+                tag = tag.split('}', 1)[1]
+
+            newnode = {}
+            try:
+                child = current[ctag]
+            except KeyError:
+                child = current[ctag] = []
+
+            child.append(newnode)
+            return (parent, current, ctag), newnode, tag
+        elif event == 'data':
+            print ctag, v1
+            current[ctag] = v1
+            return parent, current, ctag
+        elif event == 'end':
+            return parent
+
+    parent, node, tag = (None, None, None), root, 'root'
+    while node:
+        event, v1, v2 = (yield)
+        try:
+            parent, node, tag = process(parent, node, tag, event, v1, v2)
+        except Exception as e:
+            import traceback
+            traceback.print_exc()
+
+
+class DictBuilder:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.result = {}
+        self.builder = builder(self.result)
+
+    def start(self, tag, attrib):
+        self.builder.send(('start', tag, attrib))
+
+    def data(self, data):
+        self.builder.send(('data', data, None))
+
+    def end(self, tag):
+        self.builder.send(('end', tag, None))
+
+    def close(self):
+        return self.result
+
+
+def parsestring(xml):
+    parser = etree.XMLParser(target=DictBuilder())
+    parser.feed(xml)
+    return parser.close()