From 7bb765beddf9cf292f4d9d1d13b197e026eb3e0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tomkat83 <kathriner.thomas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:03:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 'NameError: global name 'guidoc' is not defined'

---
 resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py | 16 ++++------------
 resources/lib/utils.py                  | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py b/resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py
index 3db6de5f..9c960add 100644
--- a/resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py
+++ b/resources/lib/plexbmchelper/settings.py
@@ -1,23 +1,15 @@
-import uuid
 import xbmc
 import xbmcaddon
-from xml.dom.minidom import parse
 import utils
 
 settings = {}
-try:
-    path = xbmc.translatePath(
-        'special://userdata/guisettings.xml').decode('utf-8')
-    guidoc = parse(path)
-except:
-    print "PlexKodiConnect - Unable to read XBMC's guisettings.xml"
+
+guisettingsXML = utils.guisettingsXML()
+
 
 def getGUI(name):
-    global guidoc
-    if guidoc is None:
-        return False
     try:
-        return guidoc.getElementsByTagName(name)[0].firstChild.nodeValue
+        return list(guisettingsXML.iter(name))[0].text
     except:
         return ""
 
diff --git a/resources/lib/utils.py b/resources/lib/utils.py
index 77ab2625..832c926a 100644
--- a/resources/lib/utils.py
+++ b/resources/lib/utils.py
@@ -650,6 +650,23 @@ def musiclibXML():
     etree.ElementTree(root).write(xmlpath)
 
 
+def guisettingsXML():
+    """
+    Returns special://userdata/guisettings.xml as an etree xml root element
+    """
+    path = xbmc.translatePath("special://profile/").decode('utf-8')
+    xmlpath = "%sguisettings.xml" % path
+
+    try:
+        xmlparse = etree.parse(xmlpath)
+    except:
+        # Document is blank or missing
+        root = etree.Element('settings')
+    else:
+        root = xmlparse.getroot()
+    return root
+
+
 def advancedSettingsXML():
     """
     Deactivates Kodi popup for scanning of music library