When libvirt does not support virDomain.metadata() we need to do string manupulation to remove the Kimchi namespace. It was done using regex which was causing problems to remove undesirable content. Signed-off-by: Aline Manera <alinefm@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- src/kimchi/model/utils.py | 22 ++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/kimchi/model/utils.py b/src/kimchi/model/utils.py index 7dcabf8..d084f74 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/model/utils.py +++ b/src/kimchi/model/utils.py @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA import libvirt -import re import socket import urlparse -from lxml import etree +from lxml import etree, objectify from lxml.builder import E, ElementMaker from kimchi.exception import OperationFailed @@ -136,17 +135,16 @@ def _kimchi_get_metadata_node(dom, tag): root = etree.fromstring(xml) kimchi = root.find("metadata/{%s}kimchi" % KIMCHI_META_URL) # remove the "kimchi" prefix of xml - # some developers may do not like to remove prefix by children iteration - # so here, use re to remove the "kimchi" prefix of xml - # and developers please don not define element like this: - # <foo attr="foo<kimchi:abcd>foo"></foo> if kimchi is not None: - kimchi_xml = etree.tostring(kimchi) - ns_pattern = re.compile(" xmlns:.*?=((\".*?\")|('.*?'))") - kimchi_xml = ns_pattern.sub("", kimchi_xml) - prefix_pattern = re.compile("(?<=<)[^/]*?:|(?<=</).*?:") - kimchi_xml = prefix_pattern.sub("", kimchi_xml) - return etree.fromstring(kimchi_xml) + for elem in kimchi.getiterator(): + if not hasattr(elem.tag, 'find'): + continue + i = elem.tag.find('}') + if i >= 0: + elem.tag = elem.tag[i+1:] + + objectify.deannotate(kimchi, cleanup_namespaces=True) + return kimchi return None -- 1.9.3