Morten Guldager wrote: > 'Aloha Friends! > > I'm trying to process some HTML using xml.etree.ElementTree > Problem is that the HTML I'm trying to read have some not properly closed > tags, as the <img> shown in line 8 below. > > 1 from xml.etree import ElementTree > 2 > 3 tree = ElementTree > 4 e = tree.fromstring( > 5 """ > 6 <html> > 7 <body> > 8 <img src='mogul.jpg'> > 9 </body> > 10 </html> > 11 """) > > Python whines: xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: mismatched tag: line 5, > column 14 > > I definitely do want to work DOM style, having the whole shebang loaded > into a nice structure before I start the real work. > > Question is if it's possible to tweak xml.etree.ElementTree to accept, and > understand sloppy html, or if you have suggestions for similar easy to use > framework, preferably among the included batteries?
The <img> tag doesn't have a closing counterpart in HTML. That implies that valid HTML isn't valid XML and that you cannot use xml.etree with HTML. While it is not in the standard library a good alternative for XML that can deal with HTML, too, is lxml. See <http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html>. It also provides a way to cope with really broken html, modeled after BeautifulSoup. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list