Hi Kent, Well I have decided to get this sorted once and for all. Not that I don't like ElementTree, but the fack is that BeautifulSoup uses a near identical syntax to the 3D application SDK's object model I'm using it with, making interaction between the 3D and the XML extremely transparent. Anyway, here is what I did.
I simply modified the BeautifulSoup class, and added my own nestable tags to the list of NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS: NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del'] became NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del', 'sceneobject', 'parameters', 'parameter', 'shader'] Not super-elegant but it works. I wrote to the author but did not get an answer. Thanks everyone! Bernard On 9/28/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
