lxml.html.soupparser

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External interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
Function convert​_tree Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.
Function fromstring Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.
Function parse Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.
Function unescape Undocumented
Variable handle​_entities Undocumented
Class _​Pseudo​Tag Undocumented
Function ​_convert​_tree Undocumented
Function ​_init​_node​_converters Undocumented
Function ​_parse Undocumented
Constant ​_DECLARATION​_OR​_DOCTYPE Undocumented
Variable ​_parse​_doctype​_declaration Undocumented
def convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None):

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.

def fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs):

Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

Returns the root <html> Element of the tree.

You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the beautifulsoup keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the makeelement keyword. By default, the standard BeautifulSoup class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

def parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs):

Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the beautifulsoup keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the makeelement keyword. By default, the standard BeautifulSoup class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

def unescape(string):

Undocumented

handle_entities =

Undocumented

def _convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement):

Undocumented

def _init_node_converters(makeelement):

Undocumented

def _parse(source, beautifulsoup, makeelement, **bsargs):

Undocumented

_DECLARATION_OR_DOCTYPE =

Undocumented

Value
Declaration
_parse_doctype_declaration =

Undocumented