How use XML parsing tools on this one specific URL?

[Fredrik Lundh]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
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>    Chris> http://moneycentral.msn.com/companyreport?Symbol=BBBY
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>    Chris> I can't validate it and xml.minidom.dom.parseString won't work on
>    Chris> it.
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>    Chris> If this was just some teenager's web site I'd move on.  Is there
>    Chris> any hope avoiding regular expression hacks to extract the data
>    Chris> from this page?
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> Tidy it perhaps or use BeautifulSoup?  ElementTree can use tidy if it's
> available.

ElementTree can also use BeautifulSoup:

    http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm

as noted on that page, tidy is a bit too picky for this kind of use; it's better suited
for "normalizing" HTML that you're producing yourself than for parsing arbitrary
HTML.

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