elementtree

[Nadia Johnson]

On Aug 24, 7:29 pm, Dave Angel <da... at ieee.org> wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > elsa wrote:
>
> >> I know how to turn HTML into an ElementTree object
>
> > I don't. ;)
>
> > ElementTree doesn't have an HTML parser, so what do you use for parsing?
>
> >> but I don't know
> >> how to then view the structure of this object. Is there a method or
> >> module that you can give an ElementTree object to, and it returns some
> >> kind of graphical or printed representation of the tree? Otherwise, if
> >> you can't see you're tree's structure, how do you know what is a
> >> sensible way of iterating over the tree to access the info you need?
>
> > ElementTree has a tostring() method that returns a string. To get a pretty
> > printed representation, you can use the indent() function from this recipe:
>
> >http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint
>
> > Stefan
>
> Perhaps the OP was referring to XHTML, which should be eligible for
> ElementTree.  But could you tell me whether ElementTree is at all
> tolerant of malformed XML?   Most HTML and XHTML I encounter in the wild
> is so  buggy it's amazing it all works at all.
>
> DaveA

I used elementtidy, also available from effbot