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Commit 0170f0e3 authored by Julien (jvoisin) Voisin's avatar Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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1 merge request!59Remove nsid in MSOffice files
......@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ def _sort_xml_attributes(full_path: str) -> bool:
class MSOfficeParser(ZipParser):
"""
The methods modifying XML documents are usually doing so in two loops:
1. finding the tag/attributes to remove;
2. actually editing the document
since it's tricky to modify the XML while iterating on it.
"""
mimetypes = {
'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document',
'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet',
......@@ -126,9 +132,6 @@ class MSOfficeParser(ZipParser):
instead of proper parsing, since rsid can have multiple forms, like
`rsidRDefault`, `rsidR`, `rsids`, …
We're removing rsid tags in two times, because we can't modify
the xml while we're iterating on it.
For more details, see
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/documentformat.openxml.wordprocessing.previoussectionproperties.rsidrpr.aspx
- https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brian_jones/2006/12/11/whats-up-with-all-those-rsids/
......@@ -163,15 +166,11 @@ class MSOfficeParser(ZipParser):
@staticmethod
def __remove_nsid(full_path: str) -> bool:
"""
NSID are random identifiers that can be used
to ease the merging of some components of a document.
They can also be used for fingerprinting.
nsid are random identifiers that can be used to ease the merging of
some components of a document. They can also be used for
fingerprinting.
See the spec for more details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.openxml.wordprocessing.nsid?view=openxml-2.8.1
In this function, we're changing the XML document in several
different times, since we don't want to change the tree we're currently
iterating on.
"""
try:
tree, namespace = _parse_xml(full_path)
......@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ class MSOfficeParser(ZipParser):
logging.error("Unable to parse %s: %s", full_path, e)
return False
# The NSID tag is always under the `w` namespace
# The nsid tag is always under the `w` namespace
if 'w' not in namespace.keys():
return True
......@@ -197,10 +196,6 @@ class MSOfficeParser(ZipParser):
@staticmethod
def __remove_revisions(full_path: str) -> bool:
""" In this function, we're changing the XML document in several
different times, since we don't want to change the tree we're currently
iterating on.
"""
try:
tree, namespace = _parse_xml(full_path)
except ET.ParseError as e:
......
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