parse_mt_diss.py

from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
import urllib

source_url = 'http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/view/locations-markers.php'

source = urllib.urlopen(source_url)
tree = ElementTree()
doc = tree.parse(source)

print'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
print '<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">'
#print ','.join(['"%s"' % k for k in ['id', 'creator', 'program', 'url', 'lat', 'lng', 'dtype', 'description']])
for marker in doc:
    id = marker.attrib['id']
    creator = marker.attrib['creator']
    program = marker.attrib['program']
    url = marker.attrib['url']
    lat = marker.attrib['lat']
    lng = marker.attrib['lng']
    dtype = marker.attrib['type']

    description = '<h1>%s</h1><a href=\"%s\">Link</a>' % (creator, url)
    
    print "<Placemark>"
    print "<name>%s</name>" % creator
    print '<description><![CDATA[%s]]></description>' % description
    print '<Point>'
    print '<coordinates>%s, %s,0</coordinates>' % (lat, lng)
    print '</Point>'
    print '</Placemark>'

print '</kml>'

dhapi breakout. Working with lat and long from Montana State's dissertation collection. Creating KML to load into Google Earth.