__author__ = 'k22li'

import requests

from xml.etree import ElementTree

def requestNewUrl():

urlLink = raw_input('Kindly provide the url address to sync: ')

req = requests.get(urlLink)

if not req.status_code == 200:

print 'failed to request the url page: %s'%urlLink

return req.text, req.encoding

def xmlParseDownloadedPages(strings, encodingMethod):

if not isinstance(strings, unicode):

print 'not this string is encoded via utf-8'

strings = strings.decode(encodingMethod) # decode the dumped contents via the encoding methods

strings = strings.encode('utf-8')

else:

print encodingMethods

print 'validate if the string dumped belongs to unicode instance or not: ', isinstance(strings, unicode)

print 'check if the content is kind of string or not: ', isinstance(strings, str)

strings = strings.encode('utf-8')

print 'check if the content is kind of string or not: ', isinstance(strings, str)

print strings

# strings = strings.decode(encodingMetho)

tree = ElementTree.fromstring(strings)

print tree.tag

# print tree.getroot()

# tree.getroot()

# print ElementTree.iselement(tree)

urlContent, encodingMethods = requestNewUrl()

xmlParseDownloadedPages(urlContent, encodingMethods)