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diff --git a/scripts/rpki/sax_utils.py b/scripts/rpki/sax_utils.py
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+# $Id$
+
+import xml.sax
+
+def snarf(obj, attrs, key, func=None):
+  """
+  Utility function to consolidate the steps needed to extract a field
+  from the SAX XML parse and insert it as an object attribute of the
+  same name.
+  """
+
+  try:
+    val = attrs.getValue(key).encode("ascii")
+    if func:
+      val = func(val)
+  except KeyError:
+    val = None
+  setattr(obj, key, val)
+
+class handler(xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler):
+  """
+  SAX handler for RPKI protocols.  Handles a few tasks
+  common to all of these protocols, needs to be subtyped
+  to handle protocol-specific details.
+  """
+
+  def __init__(self):
+    self.text = ""
+    self.obj = None
+
+  def startElementNS(self, name, qname, attrs):
+    return self.startElement(name[1], attrs)
+
+  def endElementNS(self, name, qname):
+    return self.endElement(name[1])
+
+  def characters(self, content):
+    self.text += content