def parseTerm(element):
"""rdflib object (Literal, URIRef, BNode) for the given
elementtree element"""
tag, text = element.tag, element.text
if tag == RESULTS_NS_ET + 'literal':
if text is None:
text = ''
ret = Literal(text)
if element.get('datatype', None):
ret.datatype = URIRef(element.get('datatype'))
elif element.get(XML_NAMESPACE+'#lang', None):
ret.lang = element.get(XML_NAMESPACE+'#lang')
return ret
elif tag == RESULTS_NS_ET + 'uri':
return URIRef(text)
elif tag == RESULTS_NS_ET + 'bnode':
return BNode(text)
else:
raise TypeError("unknown binding type %r" % element)
