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+
+local st = require "util.stanza";
+
+-- XML parser
+local parse_xml = (function()
+ local entity_map = setmetatable({
+ ["amp"] = "&";
+ ["gt"] = ">";
+ ["lt"] = "<";
+ ["apos"] = "'";
+ ["quot"] = "\"";
+ }, {__index = function(_, s)
+ if s:sub(1,1) == "#" then
+ if s:sub(2,2) == "x" then
+ return string.char(tonumber(s:sub(3), 16));
+ else
+ return string.char(tonumber(s:sub(2)));
+ end
+ end
+ end
+ });
+ local function xml_unescape(str)
+ return (str:gsub("&(.-);", entity_map));
+ end
+ local function parse_tag(s)
+ local name,sattr=(s):gmatch("([^%s]+)(.*)")();
+ local attr = {};
+ for a,b in (sattr):gmatch("([^=%s]+)=['\"]([^'\"]*)['\"]") do attr[a] = xml_unescape(b); end
+ return name, attr;
+ end
+ return function(xml)
+ local stanza = st.stanza("root");
+ local regexp = "<([^>]*)>([^<]*)";
+ for elem, text in xml:gmatch(regexp) do
+ if elem:sub(1,1) == "!" or elem:sub(1,1) == "?" then -- neglect comments and processing-instructions
+ elseif elem:sub(1,1) == "/" then -- end tag
+ elem = elem:sub(2);
+ stanza:up(); -- TODO check for start-end tag name match
+ elseif elem:sub(-1,-1) == "/" then -- empty tag
+ elem = elem:sub(1,-2);
+ local name,attr = parse_tag(elem);
+ stanza:tag(name, attr):up();
+ else -- start tag
+ local name,attr = parse_tag(elem);
+ stanza:tag(name, attr);
+ end
+ if #text ~= 0 then -- text
+ stanza:text(xml_unescape(text));
+ end
+ end
+ return stanza.tags[1];
+ end
+end)();
+-- end of XML parser
+
+return parse_xml;