convert html

[Guest]

Hi:

I want to convert html to xml.

I am doing this:

from xml.dom.ext.reader import HtmlLib
from xml.dom import ext, Node
from xml.dom.NodeFilter import NodeFilter

def main( argv ):
# build a DOM tree from the html
reader = HtmlLib.Reader()
dom_object = reader.fromUri( sys.argv[1] )

info = getTableInfo( dom_object, 9 )

reader.releaseNode( dom_object );

if __name__ == "__main__":
main( sys.argv )

This takes almost a minute on a 6000 line html file on a PIII 700 Mhz 256 RAM. This is too slow.

Can you suggest another way of doing this in Python?

 

[Richard Brodie]

I want to convert html to xml.

I am doing this: ....
Can you suggest another way of doing this in Python?

I haven't benchmarked but I would imagine using HTML Tidy
(or µTidylib) is as good as any, particularly if your HTML source
is a bit rough.