[Python] handle <BR> tags

[Python] handle <BR> tags

	Luca Calderano
	Jul 31, 2003 at 1:10 pm

Hi guys...

I've done a subclass of SGMLParser
to handle the contents of a web page,
but i'm not able to handle the <BR> tag

can someone help me???

S.G.A S.p.A.
Nucleo Sistemi Informativi
Luca Calderano

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Behrang Dadsetan: I do not know SGMLParser.. but HTML is not SGML nor any subset. It is some ill language which one even rarely finds "pure" (written in the way the spec says it MUST be) I believe SGML does not like none closing tags. BR is one of the many none closing tags in HTML (also look at IMG or HR) Depending on what you are doing you should maybe use XHTML as an input if you can (XML well-formed HTML, XML being a subset of SGML) or you should probably look for a completely different parser "technology".
John Roth: "Behrang Dadsetan" wrote in message news:bgc3ad$o57$1 at online.de... You're basically correct, though. You can't parse HTML with either an SGML or an XML parser. You also can't parse it reliably if it has Javascript embedded that generates HTML. John Roth
Carl Banks: I'm very familiar with sgmllib. Can you describe the problem you're having? If you are using as a self-closing tag as is done in XHTML (i.e., ), then this cannot be done with sgmllib. You should use HTMLParser instead--only you might have to make some minor changes to your code. -- CARL BANKS

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