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> Chris> http://moneycentral.msn.com/companyreport?Symbol=BBBY
>
> Chris> I can't validate it and xml.minidom.dom.parseString won't work on
> Chris> it.
>
> Chris> If this was just some teenager's web site I'd move on. Is there
> Chris> any hope avoiding regular expression hacks to extract the data
> Chris> from this page?
>
> Tidy it perhaps or use BeautifulSoup? ElementTree can use tidy if it's
> available.
ElementTree can also use BeautifulSoup:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm
as noted on that page, tidy is a bit too picky for this kind of use; it's
better suited
for "normalizing" HTML that you're producing yourself than for parsing arbitrary
HTML.
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