Module ElementSoup

Legacy interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

Functions

convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None)
Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

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parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None)

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Function Details

Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

Returns a list instead of a single root Element to support HTML-like soup with more than one root element.

You can pass a different Element factory through the makeelement keyword.