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diff --git a/desktop/empathy-xml2txt.py b/desktop/empathy-xml2txt.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import sys
+from lxml import etree
+
+def empathy_xml2txt(infile, outfile):
+	xmlparser = etree.XMLParser(encoding = 'UTF-8')
+	xmltree = etree.parse(infile, xmlparser)
+	xmlroot = xmltree.getroot()
+	for msg in xmlroot.iter():
+		if msg.tag == "message":
+			outfile.write("{} <{:^12}> {}\n".format(
+				msg.get('time').replace('T', ' '),
+				msg.get('id'),
+				msg.text.encode('UTF-8')))
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	for i in sys.argv[1:]:
+		empathy_xml2txt(i, sys.stdout)