lxml.html.html5parser

Module html5parser

Classes

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HTMLParser
An html5lib HTML parser with lxml as tree.

XHTMLParser
An html5lib XHTML Parser with lxml as tree.

Functions

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_find_tag(tree, tag)

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document_fromstring(html, guess_charset=True, parser=None)
Parse a whole document into a string.

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fragments_fromstring(html, no_leading_text=False, guess_charset=False, parser=None)
Parses several HTML elements, returning a list of elements.

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fragment_fromstring(html, create_parent=False, guess_charset=False, parser=None)
Parses a single HTML element; it is an error if there is more than one element, or if anything but whitespace precedes or follows the element.

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fromstring(html, guess_charset=True, parser=None)
Parse the html, returning a single element/document.

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parse(filename_url_or_file, guess_charset=True, parser=None)
Parse a filename, URL, or file-like object into an HTML document tree. Note: this returns a tree, not an element. Use parse(...).getroot() to get the document root. source code

_looks_like_url(str)

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Variables

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_strings = bytes, str

xhtml_parser = XHTMLParser()

html_parser = HTMLParser()

Function Details

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fragments_fromstring(html, no_leading_text=False, guess_charset=False, parser=None)

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Parses several HTML elements, returning a list of elements.

The first item in the list may be a string. If no_leading_text is true, then it will be an error if there is leading text, and it will always be a list of only elements.

If guess_charset is True and the text was not unicode but a bytestring, the chardet library will perform charset guessing on the string.

fragment_fromstring(html, create_parent=False, guess_charset=False, parser=None)

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Parses a single HTML element; it is an error if there is more than one element, or if anything but whitespace precedes or follows the element.

If create_parent is true (or is a tag name) then a parent node will be created to encapsulate the HTML in a single element. In this case, leading or trailing text is allowed.

fromstring(html, guess_charset=True, parser=None)

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Parse the html, returning a single element/document.

This tries to minimally parse the chunk of text, without knowing if it is a fragment or a document.

base_url will set the document's base_url attribute (and the tree's docinfo.URL)