import re import sys import unicodedata #https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707890/fast-way-to-filter-illegal-xml-unicode-chars-in-python _illegal_unichrs = [(0x00, 0x08), (0x0B, 0x0C), (0x0E, 0x1F), (0x7F, 0x84), (0x86, 0x9F), (0xFDD0, 0xFDDF), (0xFFFE, 0xFFFF)] if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000: # not narrow build _illegal_unichrs.extend([(0x1FFFE, 0x1FFFF), (0x2FFFE, 0x2FFFF), (0x3FFFE, 0x3FFFF), (0x4FFFE, 0x4FFFF), (0x5FFFE, 0x5FFFF), (0x6FFFE, 0x6FFFF), (0x7FFFE, 0x7FFFF), (0x8FFFE, 0x8FFFF), (0x9FFFE, 0x9FFFF), (0xAFFFE, 0xAFFFF), (0xBFFFE, 0xBFFFF), (0xCFFFE, 0xCFFFF), (0xDFFFE, 0xDFFFF), (0xEFFFE, 0xEFFFF), (0xFFFFE, 0xFFFFF), (0x10FFFE, 0x10FFFF)]) _illegal_ranges = ["%s-%s" % (unichr(low), unichr(high)) for (low, high) in _illegal_unichrs] _illegal_xml_chars_RE = re.compile(u'[%s]' % u''.join(_illegal_ranges)) def remove_badxml(s): return _illegal_xml_chars_RE.sub('', s) _ws_runs_RE = re.compile(r'[\r\n\t]+') def sanitize_ws(s): return _ws_runs_RE.sub(u' ', s) def sanitize_line(s): return remove_badxml(sanitize_ws(s)).strip()