html DOM

[David]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Sam the Cat <sam_spam_cat at verizon.net> wrote:
> Is there a package that would allow me the same or similar functionality for
>  modifying html code via the DOM model as I have in JavaScript ?  I'd like to
>  parse an html file, then modify it and save the result.  I am not trying to
>  do this online, rather I would like to do this on a batch of files stored on
>  my hard drive.  I have found several packages that allow me to parse and
>  dissect html but none that allow me to modify the object and save the
>  results -- perhaps I am overlooking the obvious
>

Have you looked at Beautiful Soup?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

David.