HTML Structure Extraction

[dayzman]

Hi,

I'm going to write a program that extracts the structure of HTML
documents. The structure would be in the form of a tree, separating the
tags and grouping the start and end tags. I think I will use
htmllib.HTMLParser, is it appropriate for my application? If so, I
believe I will need to keep track of the depth reached.

Any tips for such application will be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I'm going to write a program that extracts the structure of HTML
documents. The structure would be in the form of a tree, separating the
tags and grouping the start and end tags. I think I will use
htmllib.HTMLParser, is it appropriate for my application? If so, I
believe I will need to keep track of the depth reached.

you mean like:

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
http://effbot.org/zone/element-tidylib.htm
http://utidylib.berlios.de/
http://www.xmlsoft.org/
http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc-elementtree-HTMLTreeBuilder.htm

and a few dozen others?

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