using IE5 HTML DOM parser in python ?

[Alex Martelli]

"Gilles Lenfant" <glenfant at equod.com.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Seems that it is not easy to parse ugly HTML (not "well formed" in XML
> wording) with the htmllib.
> I can do it easily with the IE5 included HTML DOM parser but it's in
> javascript and the script is to be included in the HTML.
> Did any of U succeed to use it from python and win32 extensions.

Maybe I don't understand your problem correctly.  The HTML DOM
that comes with IE5 is COM/Automation (accessible from JScript,
but definitely not just from there) -- easy to access from Python
(with 'makepy' support, ideally).  And I don't understand "the script
is to be included in the HTML" together with your need to parse the
HTML itself -- if you need to parse scripts in arbitrary scripting
languages, that IS indeed difficult (and HTML DOM has no help for
that)... but why would you need that?


Alex