Parsing an HTML file

CodeGuru73

I am trying to find the best way to parse a bunch of html files. They
are all simillar in structure and I need to get them into a database.
Their relevant structure is:
<html><head></head>
<body>
<h1>title</h1>
<address> authors </address>
<div> Main html content</div>

I basically need to get the values between <h1></h1>,
<address></address> and <div></div>

I am able to read the the files into an array.

Jul 18 '05 #1

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Rene Pijlman

CodeGuru73:

I am trying to find the best way to parse a bunch of html files.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...TMLParser.html

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René Pijlman

Jul 18 '05 #2

Paul McGuire

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I am trying to find the best way to parse a bunch of html files. They
are all simillar in structure and I need to get them into a database.
Their relevant structure is:
<html><head></head>
<body>
<h1>title</h1>
<address> authors </address>
<div> Main html content</div>

I basically need to get the values between <h1></h1>,
<address></address> and <div></div>

I am able to read the the files into an array.

Check out this simple XML parsing code:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/157358

-- Paul

Jul 18 '05 #3

erral

CodeGuru73 wrote:

I am trying to find the best way to parse a bunch of html files. They
are all simillar in structure and I need to get them into a database.

You can read chapter "HTML Processing" in Diveintopython:
http://diveintopython.org/html_processing/index.html

Jul 18 '05 #4

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