html DOM

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Sam the Cat

Is there a package that would allow me the same or similar functionality for
modifying html code via the DOM model as I have in JavaScript ? I'd like to
parse an html file, then modify it and save the result. I am not trying to
do this online, rather I would like to do this on a batch of files stored on
my hard drive. I have found several packages that allow me to parse and
dissect html but none that allow me to modify the object and save the
results -- perhaps I am overlooking the obvious
 
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Gabriel Genellina

En Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:19:08 -0300, Michael Wieher
Was this not of any use?

http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/HTML.html

I think, since HTML is a sub-set of XML, any XML parser could be adapted
to
do this...
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That's not true. A perfectly valid HTML document might even not be well
formed XML; some closing tags are not mandatory, attributes may not be
quoted, tags may be written in uppercase, etc. Example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd">
<HTML><TITLE>Invalid xml</title><p Id=Abc>a</html>

The above document validates with no errors on http://validator.w3.org
If you are talking about XHTML documents, yes, they *should* be valid XML
documents.
I doubt there's an HTML-specific version, but I would imagine you
could wrap any XML parser, or really, create your own that derives from
the
XML-parser-class...
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The problem is that many HTML and XHTML pages that you find on the web
aren't valid, some are ridiculously invalid. Browsers have a "quirks"
mode, and can imagine/guess more or less the writer's intent only because
HTML tags have some meaning. A generic XML parser, on the other hand,
usually just refuses to continue parsing an ill-formed document. You can't
simply "adapt any XML parser to to that".

BeautifulSoup, by example, does a very good job trying to interpret and
extract some data from the "tag soup", and may be useful to the OP.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
 
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David

Is there a package that would allow me the same or similar functionality for
modifying html code via the DOM model as I have in JavaScript ? I'd like to
parse an html file, then modify it and save the result. I am not trying to
do this online, rather I would like to do this on a batch of files stored on
my hard drive. I have found several packages that allow me to parse and
dissect html but none that allow me to modify the object and save the
results -- perhaps I am overlooking the obvious
Click to expand...

Have you looked at Beautiful Soup?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

David.
 
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Paul Boddie

Is there a package that would allow me the same or similar functionality for
modifying html code via the DOM model as I have in JavaScript ? I'd like to
parse an html file, then modify it and save the result.
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You could try libxml2dom which has an HTML parsing mode (like lxml and
other solutions based on libxml2):

http://www.python.org/pypi/libxml2dom

It attempts to provide a DOM API very much like that used by
JavaScript implementations.

Paul
 
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Stefan Behnel

Sam said:
Is there a package that would allow me the same or similar functionality
for modifying html code via the DOM model as I have in JavaScript ? I'd
like to parse an html file, then modify it and save the result. I am
not trying to do this online, rather I would like to do this on a batch
of files stored on my hard drive. I have found several packages that
allow me to parse and dissect html but none that allow me to modify the
object and save the results -- perhaps I am overlooking the obvious
Click to expand...

http://codespeak.net/lxml/lxmlhtml.html

Here are some performance comparisons of HTML parsers:

http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/

Stefan
 

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