ncclient:NETCONF Python client

# Copyright 2009 Shikhar Bhushan

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from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET

from cStringIO import StringIO

def parse(raw, recognized=[]):

    '''Parse the top-level element from a string representing an XML document.

    recognized is a list of tag names that will be successfully parsed.

    The tag names should be qualified with namespace.

    Returns a `(tag, attributes)` tuple, where `tag` is a string representing

    the qualified name of the recognized element and `attributes` is an

    `{attribute: value}` dictionary.

    '''

    fp = StringIO(raw)

    for event, element in ET.iterparse(fp, events=('start',)):

        return (element.tag, element.attrib)