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Stupid.Fat.Cat
Stupid.Fat.Cat

Reputation: 11285

Parsing AndroidManifest.xml

I'm trying to parse an AndroidManifest xml file for some analysis. What's the optimal way to parse this? So far this is what I'm doing

import string
test=string.printable
f=open('AndroidManifest.xml', 'r').read()
x=""
for n in f:
        if n in test:
                x+=n
print x

And the result is more or less:

d 74Rv vzPVZVL :Pd>P l versionCode minSdkVersiontargetSdkVersionnameiconlabel versionName configChangespriorityandroid*http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/androidpackagemanifestngjvnpslnp.iplhmk1.0uses-sdkuses-permission#android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE'android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATEandroid.permission.

That's just a portion of it. As you can see, it's pretty damn ugly. Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT:

So I get this strange traceback when I use parse 

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test2.py", line 4, in <module>
  dom = parse(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1914, in parse
  return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 928, in parse
  result = builder.parseFile(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
  parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
  xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2147

Answers (1)

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 9223

I would suggest parsing it using an XML parser rather than plain text.

Here's some excellent documentation on minidom.

Upvotes: 2

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