Parsing¶

The HTML class parses a string of HTML and provides methods to query the DOM for specific elements.

init¶

Creates an HTML object from a string.

from minestrone import HTML
html = HTML("""
<html>
  <head>
    <title>The Dormouse's Story</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>The Dormouse's Story</h1>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="elsie">Elsie</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="lacie">Lacie</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>
""")

If closing tags are missing, then they will be added as needed to make the HTML valid.

from minestrone import HTML
assert str(HTML("<span>dormouse")) == "<span>dormouse</span>"

str¶

Returns the HTML object as a string.

from minestrone import HTML
html = HTML("""
<html>
  <head>
    <title>The Dormouse's Story</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>The Dormouse's Story</h1>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="elsie">Elsie</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="lacie">Lacie</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>
""")

assert str(html) == """<html>
<head>
<title>The Dormouse's Story</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Dormouse's Story</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="elsie">Elsie</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="lacie">Lacie</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>"""

Note

Rendering the HTML into a string will remove preceding spaces.

Parsing¶

__init__¶

__str__¶

init¶

str¶