def get_props_from_doc(self, cls, id, doc):
        """
        Pull out the properties from this document
        Returns the class, the properties in a hash, and the id if provided as a tuple
        :return: (cls, props, id)
        """
        obj_node = doc.getElementsByTagName('object')[0]
        if not cls:
            class_name = obj_node.getAttribute('class')
            cls = find_class(class_name)
        if not id:
            id = obj_node.getAttribute('id')
        props = {}
        for prop_node in obj_node.getElementsByTagName('property'):
            prop_name = prop_node.getAttribute('name')
            prop = cls.find_property(prop_name)
            value = self.decode_value(prop, prop_node)
            value = prop.make_value_from_datastore(value)
            if value != None:
                props[prop.name] = value
        return (cls, props, id)