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cleaning invalid characters from xml
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def invalid_xml_remove(c): | |
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707890/fast-way-to-filter-illegal-xml-unicode-chars-in-python | |
illegal_unichrs = [ (0x00, 0x08), (0x0B, 0x1F), (0x7F, 0x84), (0x86, 0x9F), | |
(0xD800, 0xDFFF), (0xFDD0, 0xFDDF), (0xFFFE, 0xFFFF), | |
(0x1FFFE, 0x1FFFF), (0x2FFFE, 0x2FFFF), (0x3FFFE, 0x3FFFF), | |
(0x4FFFE, 0x4FFFF), (0x5FFFE, 0x5FFFF), (0x6FFFE, 0x6FFFF), | |
(0x7FFFE, 0x7FFFF), (0x8FFFE, 0x8FFFF), (0x9FFFE, 0x9FFFF), | |
(0xAFFFE, 0xAFFFF), (0xBFFFE, 0xBFFFF), (0xCFFFE, 0xCFFFF), | |
(0xDFFFE, 0xDFFFF), (0xEFFFE, 0xEFFFF), (0xFFFFE, 0xFFFFF), | |
(0x10FFFE, 0x10FFFF) ] | |
illegal_ranges = ["%s-%s" % (unichr(low), unichr(high)) | |
for (low, high) in illegal_unichrs | |
if low < sys.maxunicode] | |
illegal_xml_re = re.compile(u'[%s]' % u''.join(illegal_ranges)) | |
if illegal_xml_re.search(c) is not None: | |
#Replace with space | |
return ' ' | |
else: | |
return c | |
def scrub_literal(value): | |
""" | |
Scrubs control characters from the incoming values to remove | |
things like form feeds (\f) and line breaks (\n) which might | |
cause problems with Jena. | |
Data with these characters was found in the Backstage data. | |
""" | |
from curses import ascii | |
import unicodedata | |
if not value: | |
return | |
if (type(value) == long) or (type(value) == int): | |
return value | |
n = ''.join([c for c in value if not ascii.iscntrl(c)\ | |
if not ascii.isctrl(c)]) | |
#n = ''.join(new) | |
n = n.replace('"', '') | |
n = n.replace('\ufffd', '') | |
n = clean_text(n) | |
if type(n) != unicode: | |
n = unicode(n, errors='replace') | |
return n.strip() | |
def clean_char(char): | |
""" | |
Function for remove invalid XML characters from | |
incoming data. | |
""" | |
#Get rid of the ctrl characters first. | |
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1833873/python-regex-escape-characters | |
char = re.sub('\x1b[^m]*m', '', char) | |
#Clean up invalid xml | |
char = invalid_xml_remove(char) | |
replacements = [ | |
(u'\u201c', '\"'), | |
(u'\u201d', '\"'), | |
(u"\u001B", ' '), #http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1b/index.htm | |
(u"\u0019", ' '), #http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/19/index.htm | |
(u"\u0016", ' '), #http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/16/index.htm | |
(u"\u001C", ' '), #http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1c/index.htm | |
(u"\u0003", ' '), #http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?utf8=0x | |
(u"\u000C", ' ') | |
] | |
for rep, new_char in replacements: | |
if char == rep: | |
#print ord(char), char.encode('ascii', 'ignore') | |
return new_char | |
return char |
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