More XML fun in the morning!
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from lxml import etree as et
html_parser = et.HTMLParser(encoding='utf8')
WRAPPER_FILENAME = 'wrapper.html'
CONTENT_FILENAME = 'content.html'
wrapper_tree = et.parse(WRAPPER_FILENAME, parser=html_parser)
# Note, we can't use HTML parser for the content as it is not
# a full, well formed HTML file. Also, this file needs to
# be encapuslated within a single XML element, e.g. a <div>
content_tree = et.parse(CONTENT_FILENAME)
wrapper_root = wrapper_tree.getroot()
content_root = content_tree.getroot()
# Get the <body> element of the wrapper, else raise an exception
wrapper_body_list = wrapper_root.xpath('//body')
if len(wrapper_body_list) == 0:
raise Exception("Could not find <body> in wrapper")
wrapper_body = wrapper_body_list[0]
# Use use an index of 0 to insert our content as the first
# child element of the wrapper's body element...
wrapper_body.insert(index=0, element=content_root)
print(et.tostring(wrapper_root, pretty_print=True).decode('utf8'))
> On 11 May 2022, at 11:59, Gilles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to add ~twenty lines of HTML right after the <body> tag.
>
> Does lxml provide a way to read that data from a variable, to keep things
> simple?
>
> ========
> for body in root.xpath('//body[@*]'):
>
> et.SubElement(body,"<p>",HTML_block)
> ========
>
> Thank you.
>
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