Refactoring into module, part 1

courseware/content_parser.py

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+from django.conf import settings
+from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
+
+
+def toc_from_xml(active_chapter,active_section):
+    dom=parse(settings.DATA_DIR+'course.xml')
+
+    course = dom.getElementsByTagName('course')[0]
+    name=course.getAttribute("name")
+    chapters = course.getElementsByTagName('chapter')
+    ch=list()
+    for c in chapters:
+        sections=list()
+        for s in c.getElementsByTagName('section'):
+            sections.append({'name':s.getAttribute("name"), 
+                             'time':s.getAttribute("time"), 
+                             'format':s.getAttribute("format"), 
+                             'due':s.getAttribute("due"),
+                             'active':(c.getAttribute("name")==active_chapter and \
+                                           s.getAttribute("name")==active_section)})
+        ch.append({'name':c.getAttribute("name"), 
+                   'sections':sections,
+                   'active':(c.getAttribute("name")==active_chapter)})
+    return ch
+