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gutenberg catalog thing
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cat_import.py
from lxml.etree import parse
catalog = parse('catalog.rdf')
book_tag = '{http://www.gutenberg.org/rdfterms/}etext'
books = catalog.findall(book_tag)
file_tag = '{http://www.gutenberg.org/rdfterms/}file'
files = catalog.findall(file_tag)
#from here you can just do book = catalog[].getchildren() and start working on subelements ie: the book data
#books[].values() returns bookid
#further, files[].values() gets you filename
#and files[].getchildren() has isformatOf which the .values() is the extext the file is for
#eg: files[].getchildren[4].values() returns '#etext1'
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