(resending to the whole list) Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hi Kent, > > Thanks a lot for that answer. I have had a look at the BS code, and I > have to admit I'm a bit at a loss: how would you add several nestable > tag names in that list? > > I tried > NESTABLE_TAGS = BeautifulSoup.buildTagMap( [], 'parameter', 'parameters' ) > for example, but I kept having these nesting issues. I fact I have a > whole bunch of tags that I need to make nestable....
I think that's right but I confess I don't understand that part of the code too well either. Maybe an email to the author? or maybe it's time to try ElementTree (and pdis XPath?) again. Kent > > > Thanks > Bernard > > > On 9/26/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Bernard Lebel wrote: >> >>>Hi grouchy, >>> >>>I seem to have found the problem. Somehow, it seems BeautifulSoup >>>doesn't like nested tags of the same name. >> >>This seems to be a feature of BS. It seems a bit of a misfeature when applied >>to XML but anyway...you can configure BS with a set of tags which can be >>nested, then it will properly parse your data. Here is a short program that >>shows how: >> >>xml = '''<parameter scriptname="posx"> >> <fcurve plotted="False"> >> <parameter scriptname="extrapolation">1</parameter> >> </fcurve> >></parameter>''' >> >>import BeautifulSoup >> >>class NestingParser(BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup): >> NESTABLE_TAGS = BeautifulSoup.buildTagMap([], 'parameter') >> >>soup = NestingParser(xml) >>print soup.prettify() >> >> >>Kent >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
