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+/**
+ * Copyright 2007-2017
+ * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab
+ * Technische Universität Darmstadt
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ .
+ */
+package eu.openminted.uc.socialsciences.variabledetection.io;
+
+import static org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.closeQuietly;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
+import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
+import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
+
+import org.apache.uima.cas.CAS;
+import org.apache.uima.cas.CASException;
+import org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException;
+import org.apache.uima.collection.CollectionException;
+import org.apache.uima.jcas.JCas;
+import org.dkpro.tc.api.type.TextClassificationOutcome;
+import org.dkpro.tc.api.type.TextClassificationTarget;
+import org.dkpro.tc.core.io.SingleLabelReaderBase;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+/**
+ * Collection reader for Variable mention XML file containing sentences from several documents
+ */
+public class XmlCorpusAllDocsReader
+    extends SingleLabelReaderBase
+{
+    private List<TargetOutcomePair> targetOutcomePairList = new ArrayList<>();
+    private String language = "";
+    private Resource res;
+    private int count = 0;
+    
+    @Override
+    public void getNext(CAS aCAS) throws IOException, CollectionException
+    {
+        if (targetOutcomePairList.isEmpty()) {
+            res = nextFile();
+            InputStream is = null;
+
+            try {
+                is = res.getInputStream();
+                process(is);
+            }
+            finally {
+                closeQuietly(is);
+            }
+            count = 0;
+        }
+
+        initCas(aCAS, res, Integer.toString(count));
+        
+        try {
+            TargetOutcomePair pair = targetOutcomePairList.get(0);
+            targetOutcomePairList.remove(0);
+            JCas jcas = aCAS.getJCas();
+            aCAS.getJCas().setDocumentText(pair.target);
+
+            aCAS.setDocumentLanguage(language);
+            // Set up language
+            if (getConfigParameterValue(PARAM_LANGUAGE) != null) {
+                aCAS.setDocumentLanguage((String) getConfigParameterValue(PARAM_LANGUAGE));
+            }
+            TextClassificationOutcome outcome = new TextClassificationOutcome(jcas);
+            outcome.setOutcome(pair.outcome);
+            outcome.setWeight(getTextClassificationOutcomeWeight(jcas));
+            outcome.addToIndexes();
+            
+            new TextClassificationTarget(jcas, 0, jcas.getDocumentText().length()).addToIndexes();
+            ++count;
+        }
+        catch (CASRuntimeException | CASException e) {
+            throw new CollectionException(e);
+        }
+        
+        
+    }
+
+    private void process(InputStream aInputStream) throws IOException
+    {
+        DocumentBuilder xmlDocumentBuilder;
+        DocumentBuilderFactory xmlDocumentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+        Document document = null;
+        try {
+            xmlDocumentBuilder = xmlDocumentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
+            document = xmlDocumentBuilder.parse(new InputSource(aInputStream));
+        }
+        catch (ParserConfigurationException | SAXException e) {
+            throw new IOException(e);
+        }
+
+        if (document != null) {
+            try {
+                XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
+                NodeList docNodes = (NodeList) xpath.compile("/docs//doc").evaluate(document,
+                        XPathConstants.NODESET);
+                Node docNode = docNodes.item(0);
+                while (docNode != null) {
+                    if (language.equals("")) {
+                        NamedNodeMap docAttributes = docNode.getAttributes();
+                        language = docAttributes.getNamedItem("lang").getTextContent();
+                    }
+                    
+                    NodeList sentenceNodes = (NodeList) xpath.compile(".//s").evaluate(docNode, XPathConstants.NODESET);
+                    Node sentenceNode = sentenceNodes.item(0);
+                    while (sentenceNode != null) {
+                        if (!sentenceNode.getTextContent().trim().isEmpty()) {
+                            NamedNodeMap sentenceAttributes = sentenceNode.getAttributes();
+                            String correct = sentenceAttributes.getNamedItem("correct").getTextContent();
+                            if (!correct.equals("NoSkip")) {
+                                if (!correct.equals("No")) {
+                                    correct = "Yes";
+                                }
+                                TargetOutcomePair pair = new TargetOutcomePair();
+                                pair.target = normalizeWhitespaces(sentenceNode.getTextContent());
+                                pair.outcome = correct;
+                                targetOutcomePairList.add(pair);
+                            }
+                        }
+                        
+                        sentenceNode = sentenceNode.getNextSibling();
+                    }
+                    
+                    docNode = docNode.getNextSibling();
+                }
+            }
+            catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
+                throw new IOException(
+                        "Problem with parsing the expression: " + e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private String normalizeWhitespaces(String input)
+    {
+        return input.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getTextClassificationOutcome(JCas jcas) throws CollectionException
+    {
+        return null;
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public boolean hasNext()
+            throws IOException, CollectionException
+    {
+        return super.hasNext() || !targetOutcomePairList.isEmpty();
+    }
+    
+    private class TargetOutcomePair
+    {
+        public String target;
+        public String outcome;
+    }
+}