Package genshi :: Module input :: Class HTMLParser |

# Class HTMLParser

    markupbase.ParserBase --+
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        HTMLParser.HTMLParser --+
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                       object --+
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                               HTMLParser

Parser for HTML input based on the Python HTMLParser module.

This class provides the same interface for generating stream events as XMLParser, and attempts to automatically balance tags.

The parsing is initiated by iterating over the parser object:

    >>> parser = HTMLParser(StringIO('<UL compact><LI>Foo</UL>'))
    >>> for kind, data, pos in parser:
    ...     print kind, data
    START (QName(u'ul'), Attrs([(QName(u'compact'), u'compact')]))
    START (QName(u'li'), Attrs())
    TEXT Foo
    END li
    END ul

Instance Methods
__init__(self, source, filename=None, encoding=`'``utf-8``'`) Initialize the parser for the given HTML input. |
parse(self) Generator that parses the HTML source, yielding markup events. |
__iter__(self) |
handle_starttag(self, tag, attrib) |
handle_endtag(self, tag) |
handle_data(self, text) |
handle_charref(self, name) |
handle_entityref(self, name) |
handle_pi(self, data) |
handle_comment(self, text) |
Inherited from `HTMLParser.HTMLParser`: `check_for_whole_start_tag`, `clear_cdata_mode`, `close`, `error`, `feed`, `get_starttag_text`, `goahead`, `handle_decl`, `handle_startendtag`, `parse_endtag`, `parse_pi`, `parse_starttag`, `reset`, `set_cdata_mode`, `unescape`, `unknown_decl` Inherited from `markupbase.ParserBase`: `getpos`, `parse_comment`, `parse_declaration`, `parse_marked_section`, `updatepos` Inherited from `object`: `__delattr__`, `__getattribute__`, `__hash__`, `__new__`, `__reduce__`, `__reduce_ex__`, `__repr__`, `__setattr__`, `__str__`

Class Variables
Inherited from `HTMLParser.HTMLParser`: `CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS`

Properties
Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Method Details

### __init__(self, source, filename=None, encoding=`'``utf-8``'`) (Constructor) |
Initialize the parser for the given HTML input. Parameters: `source` - the HTML text as a file-like object `filename` - the name of the file, if known `filename` - encoding of the file; ignored if the input is unicode Overrides: object.__init__

### parse(self) |
Generator that parses the HTML source, yielding markup events. Returns: a markup event stream Raises: `ParseError` - if the HTML text is not well formed

### handle_starttag(self, tag, attrib) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_starttag

### handle_endtag(self, tag) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_endtag

### handle_data(self, text) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_data

### handle_charref(self, name) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_charref

### handle_entityref(self, name) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_entityref

### handle_pi(self, data) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_pi

### handle_comment(self, text) |
Overrides: HTMLParser.HTMLParser.handle_comment