Added the base for an xml renderer

volatility/renderers/xml.py

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+from volatility import debug
+from volatility.renderers.basic import Renderer
+
+__author__ = "simocarina"
+
+try:
+	from lxml.etree import ElementTree
+	can_parse_xml_files = True
+except ImportError:
+	can_parse_xml_files = False
+
+class XMLRenderer(Renderer):
+	def __init__(self, renderers_func,config):
+		if not can_parse_xml_files:
+			debug.error("You do not have the required libraries for xml files\nYou have to install lxml")
+		self._config = config
+		self._tree = ElementTree.parse('xml_renderer.xml')
+		self._root = tree.getroot()
+
+	def tags(self):
+		output = []
+		for column in self._columns:
+			output.append((column.name))
+		return output
+
+	def _append_element(self, field_name, data, node=self._root.tag):
+		if(node==self._root.tag):
+			self._root.append(ElementTree.Element(field,attrib={text:data}))
+		else:
+			for field in root.iter(node):
+				field.append(ElementTree.Element(field,attrib={text:data}))
+		self._tree.write('xml_renderer.xml')
+
+	def _modify_element(self, data, node=self._root.tag, action = "replace"):
+
+		if(node==self._root.tag):
+			if(action=="replace"):
+				self._root.text = data
+			elif(action=="append"):
+				self._root.text = data
+		else:
+			for field in root.iter(node):
+				if(action=="replace"):
+					field.text = data
+				elif(action=="append"):
+					field.text += data
+	self._tree('xml_renderer.xml')
+
+	def render(self,outfd,grid):
+		if not self._config.OUTPUT_FILE:
+            debug.error("Please specify a valid output file using --output-file")