In Python BeautifulSoup How to move tags
- by JJ
I have a partially converted XML document in soup coming from HTML. After some replacement and editing in the soup, the body is essentially -
<Text...></Text> # This replaces <a href..> tags but automatically creates the </Text>
<p class=norm ...</p>
<p class=norm ...</p>
<Text...></Text>
<p class=norm ...</p> and so forth.
I need to "move" the <p> tags to be children to <Text> or know how to suppress the </Text>. I want -
<Text...>
<p class=norm ...</p>
<p class=norm ...</p>
</Text>
<Text...>
<p class=norm ...</p>
</Text>
I've tried using item.insert and item.append but I'm thinking there must be a more elegant solution.
for item in soup.findAll(['p','span']):
if item.name == 'span' and item.has_key('class') and item['class'] == 'section':
xBCV = short_2_long(item._getAttrMap().get('value',''))
if currentnode:
pass
currentnode = Tag(soup,'Text', attrs=[('TypeOf', 'Section'),... ])
item.replaceWith(currentnode) # works but creates end tag
elif item.name == 'p' and item.has_key('class') and item['class'] == 'norm':
childcdatanode = None
for ahref in item.findAll('a'):
if childcdatanode:
pass
newlink = filter_hrefs(str(ahref))
childcdatanode = Tag(soup, newlink)
ahref.replaceWith(childcdatanode)
Thanks
