def unescape(str_): return HTMLParser().unescape(str_)

def get_id(node): return node.getAttribute('id')

def set_id(node, id_): node.setAttribute('id', id_)

def is_completely_empty(node): return node.firstChild == None

def has_one_child(node):

        self.child = self.child.nextSibling

        return child

def is_comment(node): return node.nodeType == Node.COMMENT_NODE

def is_empty(node):

    for child in NodeIter(node):

        if not is_comment(child): return False

    return True

class NodeElemIter:

    def __init__(self, node): self.child = node.firstChild

        self.node = self.node.parentNode

        return node

def is_text_node(node): return node.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE

def is_text(node): return has_one_child(node) and is_text_node(node.firstChild)

        self.iter_.next()

        return entry

def set_child(node, name, value):

    '''Note: does not remove any existing child of the same name'''

    child = node.ownerDocument.createElement(name)

def replace_with_text(node, str_):

    replace(node, node.ownerDocument.createTextNode(str_))

def by_tag_name(node, name, last_only=False):

    '''last_only optimization returns last matching node'''

    children = []

            if last_only: break

    return children

def create_doc(root='_'):

    return minidom.getDOMImplementation().createDocument(None, root, None)

prettyxml_config = dict(addindent='    ', newl='\n')

toprettyxml_config = prettyxml_config.copy()

util.rename_key(toprettyxml_config, 'addindent', 'indent')

# minidom modifications

minidom._write_data = lambda writer, data: writer.write(escape(data))