Simple HTML to XML parser?

[jsantaniello at my-deja.com]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for the tips. In the xml package in 1.5.2 there is a nice demo
html2html that seems to illustrate what I need. It's not included in
2.0's xml package, but I think that's the way I'm going to go.

Joe

In article <8uq132$rek$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  jsantaniello at my-deja.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have or know of a simple HTML to XML parser? The sax
package
> is too much for me to handle. What I'm looking for is the ability to
> grab some html with urllib for example and then access an object like:
>
> page = urlopen(url)
> the_value = page.body.form[0].hidden_element_name.value
>
> Or something similar. What I'm doing now is just grabbing the page as
a
> string and searching for tokens and then doing some slicing. But this
is
> all so hard coded, and subject to the vagaries of web-designers that I
> don't trust it.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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