xHTML/XML to Unicode (and back)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robin Haswell wrote:

> I'm currently screenscraping some Swedish site, and i need a method to
> convert XML entities (& etc, plus d etc) to Unicode characters.
> I'm sure one of python's myriad of XML processors can do this but I can't
> find which one.
>
> Can anyone make any suggestions?

any decent html-aware screen scraper library should be able to do
this for you.

if you've already extracted the strings, the strip_html function on
this page might be what you need:

    http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#strip-html

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