Karl Dubost wrote:
Sam,
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 23:13, Sam Ruby a écrit :
My original interest was to write a replacement for Python's SGMLLIB,
i.e., one that was not based on the theoretical ideal of how SGML
vocabularies work, but one based on the practical notion of how HTML
actually is parsed.
I'm not sure sgmllib would be the best target. Specifically if it's used
in many other products. But maybe you are talking about a new library
altogether.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sgmllib.html
8.2 sgmllib -- Simple SGML parser
This module defines a class SGMLParser which serves as the basis for
parsing text files formatted in SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up
Language). In fact, it does not provide a full SGML parser -- it only
parses SGML insofar as it is used by HTML, and the module only exists
as a base for the htmllib module. Another HTML parser which supports
XHTML and offers a somewhat different interface is available in the
HTMLParser module.
It seems a better candidate.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-HTMLParser.html
8.1 HTMLParser -- Simple HTML and XHTML parser
New in version 2.2.
This module defines a class HTMLParser which serves as the basis for
parsing text files formatted in HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) and
XHTML. Unlike the parser in htmllib, this parser is not based on the
SGML parser in sgmllib.
I'm adding them to the list of HTML parsers.
http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTMLAsSheAreSpoke
htmllib is both based on sgmllib (and shares some of the same issues)
and is a bit draconian. It is less suitable for consuming html as
practiced than sgmllib.
I was originally thinking about creating a htmllib2 much like there is a
urllib2 (in the library) and an httplib2 (by Joe Gregorio). Though it
now looks like it makes more sense to name it httplib5, and potentially
join forces with others who (may) have similar interests.
- Sam Ruby
