Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Changes 3/18/14

NSF:

  • Ran scrape on 2013 application, began enhancing compatibility
  • Fixed bug: I didn't take into account that <us-patent-application> may have attributes, leading string find not to recognize it.
  • Fixed bug: split_xml would split at the end tags, but it is supposed to only look at the data within the start and end tags.  For example, it was looking at
    <random_tag>
    <us-patent-application>
    <data-we-want>
    </us-patent-application>
    , when the <random-tag> should have been ignored.
  • Added dump_xml() method to patutil, which takes an xml document string and a filename, and writes the data to a file with the filename.  This is useful for debugging in specific patent applications, and also led me to find the above two bugs.

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