# Copyright 2008 by Michiel de Hoon. All rights reserved. # This code is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by its # license. Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included # as part of this package. """Parser for XML results returned by NCBI's Entrez Utilities. This parser is used by the read() function in Bio.Entrez, and is not intended be used directly. """ # The question is how to represent an XML file as Python objects. Some # XML files returned by NCBI look like lists, others look like dictionaries, # and others look like a mix of lists and dictionaries. # # My approach is to classify each possible element in the XML as a plain # string, an integer, a list, a dictionary, or a structure. The latter is a # dictionary where the same key can occur multiple times; in Python, it is # represented as a dictionary where that key occurs once, pointing to a list # of values found in the XML file. # # The parser then goes through the XML and creates the appropriate Python # object for each element. The different levels encountered in the XML are # preserved on the Python side. So a subelement of a subelement of an element # is a value in a dictionary that is stored in a list which is a value in # some other dictionary (or a value in a list which itself belongs to a list # which is a value in a dictionary, and so on). Attributes encountered in # the XML are stored as a dictionary in a member .attributes of each element, # and the tag name is saved in a member .tag. # # To decide which kind of Python object corresponds to each element in the # XML, the parser analyzes the DTD referred at the top of (almost) every # XML file returned by the Entrez Utilities. This is preferred over a hand- # written solution, since the number of DTDs is rather large and their # contents may change over time. About half the code in this parser deals # wih parsing the DTD, and the other half with the XML itself. import os.path from xml.parsers import expat # The following four classes are used to add a member .attributes to integers, # strings, lists, and dictionaries, respectively. class IntegerElement(int): def __repr__(self): text = int.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "IntegerElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class StringElement(str): def __repr__(self): text = str.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "StringElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class UnicodeElement(unicode): def __repr__(self): text = unicode.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "UnicodeElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class ListElement(list): def __repr__(self): text = list.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "ListElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class DictionaryElement(dict): def __repr__(self): text = dict.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "DictElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) # A StructureElement is like a dictionary, but some of its keys can have # multiple values associated with it. These values are stored in a list # under each key. class StructureElement(dict): def __init__(self, keys): dict.__init__(self) for key in keys: dict.__setitem__(self, key, []) self.listkeys = keys def __setitem__(self, key, value): if key in self.listkeys: self[key].append(value) else: dict.__setitem__(self, key, value) def __repr__(self): text = dict.__repr__(self) try: attributes = self.attributes except AttributeError: return text return "DictElement(%s, attributes=%s)" % (text, repr(attributes)) class NotXMLError(ValueError): def __str__(self): return "Failed to parse the XML data. Please make sure that the input data are in XML format." class CorruptedXMLError(ValueError): def __str__(self): # This message can be changed once all XML data returned by EUtils # start with the XML declaration return "Failed to parse the XML data. Please make sure that the input data are in XML format, and that the data are not corrupted." class DataHandler: def __init__(self, dtd_dir): self.stack = [] self.errors = [] self.integers = [] self.strings = [] self.lists = [] self.dictionaries = [] self.structures = {} self.items = [] self.dtd_dir = dtd_dir self.valid = True # Set to False once EUtils always returns XML files starting with 1: # Then the top record is finished record = records.pop(0) yield record def xmlDeclHandler(self, version, encoding, standalone): # The purpose of this method is to make sure that we are parsing XML. self.valid = True def startNamespaceDeclHandler(self, prefix, un): raise NotImplementedError("The Bio.Entrez parser cannot handle XML data that make use of XML namespaces") def startElementHandler(self, name, attrs): if not self.valid: raise NotXMLError self.content = "" if name in self.lists: object = ListElement() elif name in self.dictionaries: object = DictionaryElement() elif name in self.structures: object = StructureElement(self.structures[name]) elif name in self.items: # Only appears in ESummary name = str(attrs["Name"]) # convert from Unicode del attrs["Name"] itemtype = str(attrs["Type"]) # convert from Unicode del attrs["Type"] if itemtype=="Structure": object = DictionaryElement() elif name in ("ArticleIds", "History"): object = StructureElement(["pubmed", "medline"]) elif itemtype=="List": object = ListElement() else: object = StringElement() object.itemname = name object.itemtype = itemtype elif name in self.strings + self.errors + self.integers: self.attributes = attrs return else: # Element not found in DTD; this will not be stored in the record object = "" if object!="": object.tag = name if attrs: object.attributes = dict(attrs) if len(self.stack)!=0: current = self.stack[-1] try: current.append(object) except AttributeError: current[name] = object self.stack.append(object) def endElementHandler(self, name): if not self.valid: raise NotXMLError value = self.content if name in self.errors: if value=="": return else: raise RuntimeError(value) elif name in self.integers: value = IntegerElement(value) elif name in self.strings: # Convert Unicode strings to plain strings if possible try: value = StringElement(value) except UnicodeEncodeError: value = UnicodeElement(value) elif name in self.items: self.object = self.stack.pop() if self.object.itemtype in ("List", "Structure"): return elif self.object.itemtype=="Integer" and value: value = IntegerElement(value) else: # Convert Unicode strings to plain strings if possible try: value = StringElement(value) except UnicodeEncodeError: value = UnicodeElement(value) name = self.object.itemname else: self.object = self.stack.pop() return value.tag = name if self.attributes: value.attributes = dict(self.attributes) del self.attributes current = self.stack[-1] if current!="": try: current.append(value) except AttributeError: current[name] = value def characterDataHandler(self, content): if not self.valid: raise NotXMLError self.content += content def elementDecl(self, name, model): """This callback function is called for each element declaration: encountered in a DTD. The purpose of this function is to determine whether this element should be regarded as a string, integer, list dictionary, structure, or error.""" if not self.valid: raise NotXMLError if name.upper()=="ERROR": self.errors.append(name) return if name=='Item' and model==(expat.model.XML_CTYPE_MIXED, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP, None, ((expat.model.XML_CTYPE_NAME, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, 'Item', () ), ) ): # Special case. As far as I can tell, this only occurs in the # eSummary DTD. self.items.append(name) return # First, remove ignorable parentheses around declarations while (model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_SEQ, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_CHOICE) and model[1] in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_OPT) and len(model[3])==1): model = model[3][0] # PCDATA declarations correspond to strings if model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_MIXED, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_EMPTY): self.strings.append(name) return # List-type elements if (model[0] in (expat.model.XML_CTYPE_CHOICE, expat.model.XML_CTYPE_SEQ) and model[1] in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP)): self.lists.append(name) return # This is the tricky case. Check which keys can occur multiple # times. If only one key is possible, and it can occur multiple # times, then this is a list. If more than one key is possible, # but none of them can occur multiple times, then this is a # dictionary. Otherwise, this is a structure. # In 'single' and 'multiple', we keep track which keys can occur # only once, and which can occur multiple times. single = [] multiple = [] # The 'count' function is called recursively to make sure all the # children in this model are counted. Error keys are ignored; # they raise an exception in Python. def count(model): quantifier, name, children = model[1:] if name==None: if quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP): for child in children: multiple.append(child[2]) else: for child in children: count(child) elif name.upper()!="ERROR": if quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_NONE, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_OPT): single.append(name) elif quantifier in (expat.model.XML_CQUANT_PLUS, expat.model.XML_CQUANT_REP): multiple.append(name) count(model) if len(single)==0 and len(multiple)==1: self.lists.append(name) elif len(multiple)==0: self.dictionaries.append(name) else: self.structures.update({name: multiple}) def externalEntityRefHandler(self, context, base, systemId, publicId): """The purpose of this function is to load the DTD locally, instead of downloading it from the URL specified in the XML. Using the local DTD results in much faster parsing. If the DTD is not found locally, we try to download it. In practice, this may fail though, if the XML relies on many interrelated DTDs. If new DTDs appear, putting them in Bio/Entrez/DTDs will allow the parser to see them.""" if not self.valid: raise NotXMLError location, filename = os.path.split(systemId) path = os.path.join(str(self.dtd_dir), str(filename)) try: handle = open(path, "rb") except IOError: message = """\ Unable to load DTD file %s. Bio.Entrez uses NCBI's DTD files to parse XML files returned by NCBI Entrez. Though most of NCBI's DTD files are included in the Biopython distribution, sometimes you may find that a particular DTD file is missing. In such a case, you can download the DTD file from NCBI and install it manually. Usually, you can find missing DTD files at either http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dtd/ or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/query/DTD/ If you cannot find %s there, you may also try to search for it with a search engine such as Google. Please save %s in the directory %s in order for Bio.Entrez to find it. Alternatively, you can save %s in the directory Bio/Entrez/DTDs in the Biopython distribution, and reinstall Biopython. Please also inform the Biopython developers about this missing DTD, by reporting a bug on http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/ or sign up to our mailing list and emailing us, so that we can include it with the next release of Biopython. """ % (filename, filename, filename, self.dtd_dir, filename) raise RuntimeError(message) parser = self.parser.ExternalEntityParserCreate(context) parser.ElementDeclHandler = self.elementDecl parser.ParseFile(handle) return 1