From 8ecac476bf077df0c8cfb500d04b56033d9020a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Thoden <kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:45:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] New function

---
 fix_tei.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fix_tei.py b/fix_tei.py
index 3b34a19..044e46c 100644
--- a/fix_tei.py
+++ b/fix_tei.py
@@ -54,6 +54,19 @@
 
 TMP_DIR = os.path.expanduser("tmp_files")
 
+def get_place_in_xml_tree(element, tree):
+    """Find out the position of an element in a tree.
+
+    Return the index. Example: how to insert an element after a specific
+    element
+    """
+
+    xml_children = tree.getchildren()
+    position = xml_children.index(element)
+
+    return position
+# def get_place_in_xml_tree ends here
+
 def parse_bibtex(bibfile):
     """Parse the bibtex file, return a dict"""