#! /usr/bin/env python

"""A simple but useful XML dump routine. I have to read the DOM spec every time i try to write this from scratch, which hurts, so here it is once and for 
all.

"""

def _dump(elem, pad=""):
	print pad, elem.tagName
	for child in elem.childNodes:
		if (child.nodeType == child.ELEMENT_NODE):
			_dump(child, (pad + " "))
		else:
			# todo: differentiate different kinds of non-element child
			print pad, child.nodeName, repr(child.nodeValue)