HTML/DOM parser

[Xah Lee]

is there a module that lets me parse validated html files and store it
as a tree?

for example, i want to be able to easily, say, replace the following

<hr><p>References</p>
<pre>
• <a href=a>a...</a>
....
</pre>

to

<hr><p>References</p>
<ul>
<li><a href=a>a...</a></li>
....
</ul>

Thanks.

Xah
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[Sybren Stuvel]

Xah Lee enlightened us with:

is there a module that lets me parse validated html files and store
it as a tree?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.html

Assuming you're using XHTML.

Sybren

 

[Michael Ekstrand]

is there a module that lets me parse validated html files and store it
as a tree?

BeautifulSoup will parse valid HTML (not just XHTML), and also crummy
HTML while it's at it. And generates a tree structure. Warning: I
haven't actually used this myself, I've just looked at it.

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

- Michael