[OE-core] [PATCH 7/8] oeqa.utils.metadata: have layer name as an attribute in xml

[Mariano Lopez]

On 28/12/16 07:02, Markus Lehtonen wrote:
> -def dict_to_XML(tag, dictionary):
> +def dict_to_XML(tag, dictionary, **kwargs):
>      """ Return XML element converting dicts recursively. """
>  
> -    elem = Element(tag)
> +    elem = Element(tag, **kwargs)
>      for key, val in dictionary.items():
> -        if isinstance(val, MutableMapping):
> +        if tag == 'layers':
> +            child = (dict_to_XML('layer', val, name=key))
> +        elif isinstance(val, MutableMapping):
>              child = (dict_to_XML(key, val))
>          else:
>              child = Element(key)

I was thinking that this function would be more generic, adding a
comparison to a tag name surely won't keep the function generic, is
there another way to implement this keeping this function generic enough?