convert xhtml back to html

[Stefan Behnel]

Tim Arnold wrote:
> hi, I've got lots of xhtml pages that need to be fed to MS HTML Workshop to 
> create  CHM files. That application really hates xhtml, so I need to convert 
> self-ending tags (e.g. <br />) to plain html (e.g. <br>).

This should do the job in lxml 2.x:

    from lxml import etree

    tree = etree.parse("thefile.xhtml")
    tree.write("thefile.html", method="html")

http://codespeak.net/lxml

Stefan