#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# This parser parses the output from Phil Harvey's exiftool (version 9.02)
# and convert it to xml format. It reads exiftool's output from stdin and
# write the xml format to stdout.
#
# In order to get the raw infomation from exiftool, we need to enable the verbose
# flag (-v2) of exiftool.
#
# Usage:
# exiftool -v2 img.jpg | ./parser.py >> output.xml
#
#
import os
import sys
import re
text = sys.stdin.read()
print """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>"""
print "<exif>"
# find the following two groups of string:
#
# 1. tag:
#
# | | | x) name = value
# | | | - Tag 0x1234
#
# 2. IFD indicator:
#
# | | | + [xxx directory with xx entries]
#
p = re.compile(
"(((?:\| )+)[0-9]*\)(?:(?:.*? = .*?)|(?:.*? \(SubDirectory\) -->))\n.*?- Tag 0x[0-9a-f]{4})" + "|"
+ "(((?:\| )*)\+ \[.*? directory with [0-9]+ entries]$)"
, re.M)
tags = p.findall(text)
layer = 0
ifds = []
for s in tags:
# IFD indicator
if s[2]:
l = len(s[3])
ifd = s[2][l + 3:].split()[0]
new_layer = l / 2 + 1
if new_layer > layer:
ifds.append(ifd)
else:
for i in range(layer - new_layer):
ifds.pop()
ifds[-1] = ifd
layer = new_layer
else:
l = len(s[1])
s = s[0]
new_layer = l / 2
if new_layer < layer:
for i in range(layer - new_layer):
ifds.pop()
layer = new_layer
# find the ID
_id = re.search("0x[0-9a-f]{4}", s)
_id = _id.group(0)
# find the name
name = re.search("[0-9]*?\).*?(?:(?: = )|(?: \(SubDirectory\) -->))", s)
name = name.group(0).split()[1]
# find the raw value in the parenthesis
value = re.search("\(SubDirectory\) -->", s)
if value:
value = "NO_VALUE"
else:
value = re.search("\(.*\)\n", s)
if (name != 'Model' and value):
value = value.group(0)[1:-2]
else:
value = re.search("=.*\n", s)
value = value.group(0)[2:-1]
if "[snip]" in value:
value = "NO_VALUE"
print (' <tag ifd="' + ifds[-1] + '" id="'
+ _id + '" name="' + name +'">' + value + "</tag>")
print "</exif>"