#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 """ generate-blog.py Created by Vassilios Karakoidas on 2007-09-14. """ # import statements from xml.dom import minidom import re import sys ############### statics ################### header = ''' Vassilios Karakoidas Weblog

Vassilios Karakoidas Weblog

''' footer = ''' ## generated by generate-blog.py ##

''' rss_header = ''' ]> Vassilios Karakoidas Weblog http://gaijin.dmst.aueb.gr/~bkarak/weblog Vassilios Karakoidas Weblog en ''' rss_footer = ''' ''' ##### program definitions class RssItem: category = '' title = '' url = '' description = '' date = '' xml = '' def add_title(self, text): pat = re.compile("([/?&!0-9'a-zA-Z .-]*)\((.*)\)") mo = pat.search(text) self.title = mo.group(1).strip() self.category = mo.group(2).strip() def to_xml(self): return self.xml ## # main program ## rssItems = [] categories = [] rssFile = sys.argv[1] # do the parsing rssdoc = minidom.parse(rssFile) elements = rssdoc.getElementsByTagName('item') for node in elements: item = RssItem() for child in node.childNodes: if child.nodeName == 'title': item.add_title(child.firstChild.nodeValue) elif child.nodeName == 'link': item.url = child.firstChild.nodeValue elif child.nodeName == 'description': item.description = child.firstChild.nodeValue elif child.nodeName == 'pubDate': item.date = child.firstChild.nodeValue item.xml = node.toxml() rssItems.append(item) for rssItem in rssItems: try: categories.index(rssItem.category) except ValueError: categories.append(rssItem.category) # open the file output_file = open("index.html","w") # write the header output_file.writelines(header) # create the anchors output_file.writelines(''); output_file.writelines(''); # create rss categories and write rss files for categ in categories: rss_file = open("rss/" + categ.lower() + "-rss.xml","w"); rss_file.writelines(rss_header); for rssItem in rssItems: if rssItem.category == categ: rss_file.writelines(rssItem.to_xml()) rss_file.writelines(rss_footer); rss_file.close(); output_file.writelines('\n
') output_file.writelines('

Blog Entries

') # create the actual list for categ in categories: output_file.writelines('') output_file.writelines(''); output_file.writelines('') # write the footer and close the files output_file.writelines(footer) output_file.close()