csv_to_xml.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""
csv_to_xml.py

This script coverts a csv file to an XML.
The script takes 2 paramenters
* filename
* row node name

Created by Giovanni Collazo on 2011-02-19.
Copyright (c) 2011 24veces.com. All rights reserved.

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"""

import sys
import csv
from xml.dom.minidom import Document

def main(args):
  
  try:
    filename = args[1]
    safe_filename = str.replace(filename[:-4], " ", "_").lower()
  except IndexError:
    print "ERROR: Please provide a filename.csv as the first argument"
    sys.exit()
    
  try:
    single_item = args[2]
  except IndexError:
    print "ERROR: Please provide a name to be used for each row node"
    sys.exit()
  
  f = csv.reader(open(filename, 'rb'))
  
  doc = Document()
  root_element = doc.createElement(safe_filename)
  doc.appendChild(root_element)
  
  columns = f.next()
  
  for row in f:
    item = doc.createElement(single_item)
    root_element.appendChild(item)
    for c in enumerate(create_col_nodes(columns, item, doc)):
      c[1].appendChild(doc.createTextNode(row.pop(0)))
  
  output_file = safe_filename + ".xml"
  doc.writexml(open(output_file, 'w')) # Write file
  
  print "Done: Created %s" % output_file
  
def create_col_nodes(cols, item, doc): 
  nodes = []
  for col in cols:
    node = doc.createElement(str.replace(col, " ", "_").lower())
    item.appendChild(node)
    nodes.append(node)
  
  return nodes

if __name__ == "__main__":
  sys.exit(main(sys.argv))