#============================================================================ 

#Name        : xmlhelper.py 

#Part of     : Helium 

#Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

#All rights reserved.

#This component and the accompanying materials are made available

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#which accompanies this distribution, and is available

#at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

#

#Initial Contributors:

#Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

#

#Contributors:

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#Description:

#===============================================================================

""" XML helper"""

import re

from xml.dom import Node

def node_scan(node, name):

    """

        Replacement function for node.xml_xpath('./name').

        name is a regular expression.

    """

    results = []

    for subnode in node.childNodes:

        if subnode.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE and re.match(name, subnode.nodeName) is not None:

            results.append(subnode)

    return results

def recursive_node_scan(node, name):

    """

        Replacement function for node.xml_xpath('.//name').

        name is a regular expression.

    """

    results = node_scan(node, name)

    for subnode in node.childNodes:

        results.extend(recursive_node_scan(subnode, name))

    return results