hi, I've got lots of xhtml pages that need to be fed to MS HTML Workshop to create CHM files. That application really hates xhtml, so I need to convert self-ending tags (e.g. <br />) to plain html (e.g. <br>).
Seems simple enough, but I'm having some trouble with it. regexps trip up because I also have to take into account 'img', 'meta', 'link' tags, not just the simple 'br' and 'hr' tags. Well, maybe there's a simple way to do that with regexps, but my simpleminded <img[^(/>)]+/> doesn't work. I'm not enough of a regexp pro to figure out that lookahead stuff. I'm not sure where to start now; I looked at BeautifulSoup and BeautifulStoneSoup, but I can't see how to modify the actual tag. thanks, --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
