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• libxml2dom and parsing

  - by Ockonal

  Hello, I have the html-content in some python-variable. Is it possible to use DOM for it? As I understand, libxml2dom is the tool for this. And about question. In my html there is div with id = 'some_needed_block'. In python-script: pageData = someHandler.read() pageDOM = libxml2dom.parseString(pageData, html=1) print pageDOM -> <libxml2dom.Document object at 0x2d160d0> block = pageDOM.getElementById('some_needed_block') print block -> <libxml2dom.Node object at 0xf5d1d0> def collect_text(node): s = "" for child_node in node.childNodes: if child_node.nodeType == child_node.TEXT_NODE: s += child_node.nodeValue else: s += collect_text(child_node) return s collect_text(block) -> for child_node in node.childNodes: -> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'childNodes'

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• HTML parser for GAE

  - by Richard

  Generally I use lxml for my HTML parsing needs, but that isn't available on Google App Engine. The obvious alternative is BeautifulSoup, but I find it chokes too easily on malformed HTML. Currently I am testing libxml2dom and have been getting better results. Which pure Python HTML parser have you found performs best? My priority is the ability to handle bad HTML over speed.

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