ZDF Mediathek Subtitle XML to SRT converter

zdf_xml_to_srt.py

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# Parse the XML file
tree = ET.parse('in.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

f = open("out.srt", "a")

# Find and print every tt:p tag
i = 0
for p in root.findall('.//{http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml}p'):
    i += 1
    texts = ''
    for elem in p.iter():
        texts += (elem.text + ' ') if elem.text else ''

    f.write(str(i) + "\n")
    f.write(p.attrib['begin'] + " --> " + p.attrib['end']  + "\n")
    f.write(texts + "\n\n")


f.close()