Hello all!
I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunately none of them work 100% reliable. Problems are
e.g. nested comments, bare "&" in URLs and "<" in text (e.g.
"if foo < bar") etc.
All of these pages can be displayed properly in a browser
so why not reuse the parser in e.g. Mozilla? Is there any
way to get proper XML out of Mozilla? Calling mozilla on the
command line would be OK, but it would be better if I could
use Mozilla like a SAX parser. Is there any project that
provides this functionality?
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
6  2004 
Walter Dörwald <wa****@livingl ogic.de> writes:
[...] way to get proper XML out of Mozilla? Calling mozilla on the
command line would be OK, but it would be better if I could
use Mozilla like a SAX parser. Is there any project that
provides this functionality?
[...]
PyXPCOM. Good luck compiling it.
John
"Walter Dörwald" <wa****@livingl ogic.de> wrote in message
news:ma******** *************** *************** @python.org... Hello all!
I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunately none of them work 100% reliable. Problems are
e.g. nested comments, bare "&" in URLs and "<" in text (e.g.
"if foo < bar") etc.
All of these pages can be displayed properly in a browser
so why not reuse the parser in e.g. Mozilla? Is there any
way to get proper XML out of Mozilla? Calling mozilla on the
command line would be OK, but it would be better if I could
use Mozilla like a SAX parser. Is there any project that
provides this functionality?
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
Maybe you should preprocess your files with something like, http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/StripOGram
which can help you get rid of the stuff you dont want
Tom
Walter Do:rwald <wa****@livingl ogic.de> wrote in message news:<ma******* *************** *************** *@python.org>.. . Hello all!
Hi!
I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunately none of them work 100% reliable.
What have you tried?
I've been using Tidy with pretty good results; there's a Python
wrapper called utidylib available at http://utidylib.berlios.de
Make sure to use the "force output" option and it'll do a reasonable
job of parsing fairly broken HTML and outputting either as plain HTML,
XHTML, or several other formats (with lots of tweaky knobs available
to tune the output if you want to).
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Dörwald wrote: I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunately none of them work 100% reliable. Problems are e.g.
nested comments, bare "&" in URLs and "<" in text (e.g. "if foo <
bar") etc.
Not a Mozilla solution, but I hear good things about http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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Paul Wright wrote: In article <ma************ *************** ***********@pyt hon.org>, Walter
Dörwald wrote:
I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunate ly none of them work 100% reliable. Problems are e.g.
nested comments, bare "&" in URLs and "<" in text (e.g. "if foo <
bar") etc.
Not a Mozilla solution, but I hear good things about
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
I already tried that, but it completely ignores encoding issues
and it passes broken entity references (e.g. bare & in URLs) along
literally. Furthermore its support for DTD aware HTML parsing
is not complete (e.g. <link> is not handled as an empty tag).
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
Paul Wright wrote: In article <ma************ *************** ***********@pyt hon.org>, Walter
Dörwald wrote:
I'm trying to parse broken HTML with several Python tools.
Unfortunate ly none of them work 100% reliable. Problems are e.g.
nested comments, bare "&" in URLs and "<" in text (e.g. "if foo <
bar") etc.
Not a Mozilla solution, but I hear good things about
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
I already tried that, but it completely ignores encoding issues
and it passes broken entity references (e.g. bare & in URLs) along
literally. Furthermore its support for DTD aware HTML parsing
is not complete (e.g. <link> is not handled as an empty tag).
Bye,
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