Cleaned unuseful str function using

inary/sxml/xmlext_iks.py

@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
 
 """
  xmlext is a helper module for accessing XML files using
- xml.dom.minidom . It is a convenient wrapper for some
+ ciksemel . It is a convenient wrapper for some
  DOM functions, and provides path based get/add functions
  as in KDE API.
 
- function names are mixedCase for compatibility with minidom,
+ function names are mixedCase for compatibility with ciksemel,
  an 'old library'
 
  this implementation uses ciksemel
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def getNodeText(node, tagpath = ""):
     if child.type() == iks.DATA:
         # KLUDGE: FIXME: python 2.x bug: force decoding as UTF-8
         child_data = child.data()
-        #print('child_data=', child_data.strip())
+        # print('child_data=', child_data.strip())
         return child_data.strip() # in any case, strip whitespaces...
     else:
         raise XmlError(_("getNodeText: Expected text node, got something else!"))

inary/sxml/xmlfile_iks.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  high-level dom functions provided in xmlext module (and sorely lacking
  in xml.dom :( )
 
- function names are mixedCase for compatibility with minidom,
+ function names are mixedCase for compatibility with ciksemel,
  an 'old library'
 
  this implementation uses ciksemel
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ class XmlFile(object):
         return self.doc
 
     def parsexml(self, file):
-        #try:
-        self.doc = iks.parseString(str(file))
-        return self.doc
-        #except Exception as e:
-            #raise Error(_("File '{}' has invalid XML").format(file) )
+        try:
+            self.doc = iks.parseString(file)
+            return self.doc
+        except Exception as e:
+            raise Error(_("File '{}' has invalid XML").format(file) )
 
 
     def readxml(self, uri, tmpDir='/tmp', sha1sum=False,