Attribute error when writing xml output

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#306 opened on Oct 29, 2018 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Start with odml/tools/xmlparser.py, especially save_element around line 82, and reproduce the writer.write_file('{0}.xml'.format("bla")) call shown in the traceback. Done means XML output can be written without the reported AttributeError.

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Description

odml version 1.4.1
INFO:rdflib:RDFLib Version: 4.2.2

Traceback: 
writer.write_file('{0}.xml'.format("bla"))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/odml/tools/xmlparser.py", line 128, in write_file
    data = unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/odml/tools/xmlparser.py", line 122, in __unicode__
    return ET.tounicode(self.save_element(self.doc), pretty_print=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/odml/tools/xmlparser.py", line 108, in save_element
    ele = XMLWriter.save_element(v)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/odml/tools/xmlparser.py", line 108, in save_element
    ele = XMLWriter.save_element(v)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/odml/tools/xmlparser.py", line 82, in save_element
    cur = E(fmt.name)
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'name'

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