page = """
<a keypress="1" href="kp1.html">This is some text 1</a>
<a keypress="2" href="kp2.html">This is some text 2</a>
<a keypress="3" href="kp3.html">This is some text 3</a>
"""
html = TAG(page)
print html.element('a',_keypress="1")[0]
print html.element('a',_keypress="2")[0]
print html.element('a',_keypress="3")[0]
This should work but web2py parser is based on the built-in Python XML
parser which chokes in two cases: invalid XML, non utf8 characters.
Massimo
On Saturday, 5 January 2013 13:46:49 UTC-6, rh wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After using fetch to get a web page in any of xhtml,html,xml and using the
> functions/features of web2py what is the preferred and most future-proof
> way to extract the data from that page?
>
> Suppose the page has these within:
>
> <a keypress="1" href="kp1.html">This is some text 1</a>
> <a keypress="2" href="kp2.html">This is some text 2</a>
> <a keypress="3" href="kp3.html">This is some text 3</a>
>
> And if I use web2py what's the preferred way to do it?
>
> use web2pyHTMLParser or use DIV, etc.
> An example would be very helpful too.
>
>
> Should I do this purely with python?
>
>
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