Question

I am trying generate HTML code based of an xml file input shown below,expected out is shown below,somewhere I am messing up the logic,I am getting a different output..can anyone point to what the issue is?

Input :-cr_fixes.xml file

<Fixes>
CR  FA  CL  Title
409452  WLAN    656885  Age out RSSI values from buffer 
409452,  12345          To Record HAL and SLM FW Event Logging
</Fixes>

EXPECTED OUTPUT:-

<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">CR</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">FA</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">CL</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">Title</th>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452">409452</a></td>
<td>WLAN</td>
<td>656885</td>
<td>Age out RSSI values from buffer </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href=http://data/409452>409452</a>,<a href=http://data/12345>12345</a></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td>To Record HAL and SLM FW Event Logging</td>
</tr>
</table>

ACTUAL OUTPUT:-

<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">CR</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">FA</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">CL</th>
<th bgcolor="#67B0F9" scope="col">Title</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452">409452</a></td>
<td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452">409452</a></td>
<td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452">409452</a></td>
<td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452">409452</a></td>
<td>WLAN</td>
<td>656885</td>
<td>Age out RSSI values from buffer </td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452,  12345">409452,  12345</a></td>
 <td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452,  12345">409452,  12345</a></td>
 <td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452,  12345">409452,  12345</a></td>
 <td><a href="http://prism/CR/409452,  12345">409452,  12345</a></td>
 <td></td>
 <td></td>
 <td>To Record HAL and SLM FW Event Logging</td>
 </tr>
</table>

PYTHON CODE:-

http://pastie.org/5390010

Answer 1

TR_TEMPLATE.append('    <td>{}</td>'.format(cols[0]))
TR_TEMPLATE = '\n'.join(TR_TEMPLATE)       #<--converts TR_TEMPLATE to a string

In the second line, you convert TR_TEMPLATE from a list to a string. On susequent iterations through the loop, you’re trying to use .append on a string. you probably want to move the second line out of the loop and join at the end.

Note that you have that same mistake at a few points in your code…