Quick and dirty XMLCard parser. Converts the base64-encoded word salad into a human-readable log.

XmlCardReader.py

from lxml import etree
from time import *
import base64

TIME_FORMAT = '%d.%m.%y %H:%M'

FILENAME = 'XMLCard.xml'

f = open(FILENAME)
a = etree.parse(f)

name = a.getroot()[0].attrib['nick']	# or 'disp' for the display name

for el in a.getroot()[0][0]:
	t = localtime(float(el.attrib['time']))
	t = strftime(TIME_FORMAT, t)
	
	flag = int(el.attrib['flag'])
	
	# identify who said that
	who = None
	if flag == 4 or flag == 20:
		who = name
	elif flag == 18:
		who = 'Me'
	
	decoded_msg = base64.decodestring(el.text)
	# cut off after the first null byte we find
	trimmed_msg = decoded_msg[:decoded_msg.find('\x00')]
	
	print "[%s] %s: %s" % (t, who, trimmed_msg)