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            The other day, I was having a spot of bother parsing HTML fragments using the python DOM. Though I did overcome that problem I immediately ran into other problems due to the odd missing tag and the odd special character. Rather than get into a mess of regular expressions, I thought to try the HTML Tidy API for python. This is not my first run in with Tidy. I have used it with <a href="000607.html">Java</a> and PHP for a long time.

            before you can make use of it you have to install it and that can be done by the following commands.
            <p style="padding-left: 30px;">yum install tidy</p>
            <p style="padding-left: 30px;">yum install python-tidy</p>

            Then it's time to visit the <a href="http://utidylib.berlios.de/apidoc0.2/index.html">documentation page</a>, which isn't really very useful. Here is how you filter a document through tidy.
            <p style="padding-left: 30px;">options = dict(output_xhtml=1, add_xml_decl=1, indent=1, tidy_mark=0)
                tidyDoc = tidy.parse(basedir + file, **options)

                Tidy's output can be used as input to create a DOM Document.

                domDoc = parseString(tidyDoc.__str__())

                One thing I found rather annoying about tidy is that it doesn't recognize the &lt;dt&gt; tag.

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Python and Tidy.

2008 Dec 11 at 00:32 » Tagged as :python,