#
# SchoolTool - common information systems platform for school administration
# Copyright (c) 2005 Shuttleworth Foundation
#
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"""
HTML Analyzation Tools

$Id$
"""
from lxml import etree


def to_string(node):
    if isinstance(node, basestring):
        return node
    else:
        return etree.tostring(node, pretty_print=True)


def queryHTML(xpath, response):
    """Helper function to perform an xpath query on an html response"""
    doc = etree.HTML(response)
    result = [to_string(node) for node in doc.xpath(xpath)]
    return result


def printQuery(xpath, response):
    """Helper function to print xpath query results on an html response"""
    for result in queryHTML(xpath, response):
        print result

