--- OSAS/OSA_system/OSAS_helpers.py	2004/01/06 14:39:49	1.2
+++ OSAS/OSA_system/OSAS_helpers.py	2004/04/14 21:38:02	1.6
@@ -2,6 +2,34 @@
 import xml.dom.minidom
 import os.path
 import re
+import urllib
+
+
+def readArchimedesXML(folder):
+	"""gib URL aus """
+        try:
+            XML=urllib.urlopen("http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?step=xmlcorpusmanifest").read()
+            #print XML
+            dom=xml.dom.minidom.parseString(XML)
+            items=dom.getElementsByTagName('item')
+            dict={}
+
+            for item in items:
+                    #print item.attributes['dir'].value
+                    try:		
+                            dict[item.attributes['dir'].value]=item.attributes['xml'].value
+                            #print item.attributes['dir'].value,item.attributes['text'].value
+                    except:
+                            """nothing"""
+
+            if dict.has_key(folder):
+                return dict[folder]
+            else:
+		return ""
+	except:
+            return ""
+
+	
 
 def getText(nodelist):
     
@@ -43,13 +71,15 @@ def changeNodesInIndexMeta(path,node,sub
         for subnode in subnodes.keys():
 
             nodeOld=root.getElementsByTagName(subnode)
-        
+            
             if nodeOld: # if yes -> delete it
-                root.removeChild(nodeOld[0]).unlink()
-
+                try:
+                    root.removeChild(nodeOld[0]).unlink()
+                except:
+                    """nothing"""
 
             namenode=dom.createElement(re.sub(r' ','-',subnode))
-            namenodetext=dom.createTextNode(subnodes[subnode].decode("utf8"))
+            namenodetext=dom.createTextNode(unicode(subnodes[subnode],"utf8"))
             namenode.appendChild(namenodetext)
             root.appendChild(namenode)
 
@@ -69,7 +99,7 @@ def changeNodesInIndexMeta(path,node,sub
         for subnode in subnodes.keys():
 
             namenode=dom.createElement(re.sub(r' ','-',subnode))
-            namenodetext=dom.createTextNode(subnodes[subnode].decode("utf8"))
+            namenodetext=dom.createTextNode(unicode(subnodes[subnode],"utf8"))
             namenode.appendChild(namenodetext)
             nodeNew.appendChild(namenode)