Class GenericXmlReader

Constructor. Creates an XML object that handles ranking file data

Parameters:

• input_xml_filename (string) - the name of XML file
• load (boolean) - by turning this option to false, the instance will be initialized without loading everything into memory

Overrides: genericreader.GenericReader.__init__

Loads the data of the file into memory. It is useful if the Classes has been asked not to load the filename upon initialization

Overrides: genericreader.GenericReader.load

Convenience function that splits an XML file into parts and writes them directly to the disk into .part files with similar filenames. The construction of the resulting filenames defined by parameters @param parts Number of parts to split into @type int @param re_split Regular expression which should define two (bracketed) groups upon the filename. The resulting files will have the part number inserted in the filename between these two parts

Overrides: genericreader.GenericReader.get_parallelsentence

Returns the contents of the parsed file into an a list with ParallelSentence objects. Note that this will cause all the data of the file to be loaded into system memory at once. For big data sets this may not be optimal, so consider sentence-by-sentence reading with SAX or CElementTree (e.g. saxjcml.py) @return the list of parallel sentences @rtype [ParallelSentence, ...]

Returns:

a list of ParallelSentence objects

Overrides: genericreader.GenericReader.get_parallelsentences