The elementtree.TidyTools Module
Tools to build element trees from HTML, using the external tidy utility.
Module Contents
- getbody(file, **options) [#]
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Get document body from a an HTML or HTML-like file. This function uses the tidy function to convert HTML to XHTML, and cleans up the resulting XML tree.
- file
- Filename.
- Returns:
- A body element, or None if not successful.
- getzonebody(file, **options) [#]
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Same as getbody, but turns plain text at the start of the document into an H1 tag. This function can be used to parse zone documents.
- file
- Filename.
- Returns:
- A body element, or None if not successful.
- tidy(file, new_inline_tags=None) [#]
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Convert an HTML or HTML-like file to XHTML, using the tidy command line utility.
- file
- Filename.
- new_inline_tags
- An optional list of valid but non-standard inline tags.
- Returns:
- An element tree, or None if not successful.
