This recommended combination is Xml.dom.minidom and XPath. Where Xml.dom.minidom is the standard library for Python, no installation is required. XPath is an open source project Py-dom-xpath by Google.
Install Py-dom-xpath:
The test HTML file, simple.html, reads as follows:
1 <!DOCTYPE HTML>2 <HTML>3 <Head>4 <title>A simple HTML file</title>5 <Metahttp-equiv= "Content-type"content= "text/html; charset=utf-8"/>6 </Head>7 <Body>8 <Div>9 <Div>A</Div>Ten <Div>B</Div> One <Div>C</Div> A </Div> - </Body> - </HTML>
Python file:
1 import XPath 2 import Xml.dom.minidom 3 4 xml = Xml.dom.minidom.parse ( '
A notable problem is that the first line of simple.html, the document header <! The ' DOCTYPE ' in DOCTYPE html> must be capitalized, otherwise xml.dom.minidom parsing will fail. In the next article, we'll cover another library that parses HTML, and there's no such problem.
Parsing HTML with XPath and xml.dom in Python
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