"""Convert TEI XML files to Markdown format.""" import re import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from pathlib import Path class TEIToMarkdownConverter: ns: dict[str, str] = {"tei": "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"} # Replace XML entities with proper characters replacements: dict[str, str] = { "æ": "æ", "ø": "ø", "å": "å", "Æ": "Æ", "Ø": "Ø", "Å": "Å", "ö": "ö", "ü": "ü", "ä": "ä", "©": "©", } def clean_text(self, text: str) -> str: """Clean and normalize text content""" for entity, char in self.replacements.items(): text = text.replace(entity, char) # Normalize whitespace text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text.strip()) return text def extract_metadata(self, root: ET.Element) -> dict[str, str]: """Extract metadata from TEI header""" metadata = {} # Title title_elem = root.find(".//tei:titleStmt/tei:title", self.ns) if title_elem is not None and title_elem.text: metadata["title"] = self.clean_text(title_elem.text) # Author author_elem = root.find(".//tei:titleStmt/tei:author", self.ns) if author_elem is not None and author_elem.text: metadata["author"] = self.clean_text(author_elem.text) # Date date_elem = root.find(".//tei:publicationStmt/tei:date", self.ns) if date_elem is not None and date_elem.get("when"): metadata["date"] = date_elem.get("when") # Publisher pub_elem = root.find(".//tei:publicationStmt/tei:publisher", self.ns) if pub_elem is not None and pub_elem.text: metadata["publisher"] = self.clean_text(pub_elem.text) return metadata def process_element(self, elem: ET.Element, level: int = 0) -> list[str]: """Process XML elements recursively and convert to Markdown""" result = [] # Handle different element types tag = elem.tag.split("}")[-1] if "}" in elem.tag else elem.tag # Headers if tag == "head": rend = elem.get("rend", "") if rend == "2": header_level = "## " elif rend == "3": header_level = "### " else: header_level = "# " text = self.get_element_text(elem) if text: result.append(f"{header_level}{text}\n") # Paragraphs elif tag == "p": text = self.get_element_text(elem) if text: result.append(f"{text}\n") # Emphasized text elif tag == "hi": rend = elem.get("rend", "") text = self.get_element_text(elem) if text: if rend == "spaced": result.append(f"**{text}**") elif rend == "initial": result.append(f"**{text}**") else: result.append(f"*{text}*") # Places elif tag == "placeName": text = self.get_element_text(elem) if text: result.append(text) # Segments elif tag == "seg": text = self.get_element_text(elem) if text: result.append(text) # Divisions elif tag == "div": for child in elem: result.extend(self.process_element(child, level + 1)) # Default case - process children else: if elem.text: result.append(self.clean_text(elem.text)) for child in elem: result.extend(self.process_element(child, level + 1)) if child.tail: result.append(self.clean_text(child.tail)) return result def get_element_text(self, elem: ET.Element) -> str: """Get all text content from an element and its children""" parts = [] if elem.text: parts.append(elem.text) for child in elem: # Handle special formatting child_tag = child.tag.split("}")[-1] if "}" in child.tag else child.tag if child_tag == "hi": rend = child.get("rend", "") child_text = self.get_element_text(child) if child_text: if rend == "spaced": parts.append(f"**{child_text}**") elif rend == "initial": parts.append(f"**{child_text}**") else: parts.append(f"*{child_text}*") elif child_tag == "seg": child_text = self.get_element_text(child) if child_text: parts.append(child_text) else: parts.append(self.get_element_text(child)) if child.tail: parts.append(child.tail) return self.clean_text("".join(parts)) def convert_text(self, xml_text: str) -> str: """Convert TEI XML text to Markdown""" root = ET.fromstring(xml_text) metadata = self.extract_metadata(root) # Start building Markdown content markdown_lines = [] # Add metadata header if metadata: markdown_lines.append("---\n") for key, value in metadata.items(): markdown_lines.append(f"{key}: {value}\n") markdown_lines.append("---\n") # Process the text body body = root.find(".//tei:body", self.ns) if body is not None: for elem in body: markdown_lines.extend(self.process_element(elem)) markdown_content = "".join(markdown_lines) return markdown_content def main(): """Main function to run the converter""" converter = TEIToMarkdownConverter() source_data = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "source-data" for path in source_data.glob("*.xml"): with path.open("r") as file: text = file.read() output_path = path.with_suffix(".md") markdown_result = converter.convert_text(text) with output_path.open("w") as file: file.write(markdown_result) if __name__ == "__main__": main()