Working with HTML5 documents

[Stefan Behnel]

Ian Kelly schrieb am 20.11.2014 um 20:44:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> There's also the E-factory for creating (sub-)trees and a nicely objectish way:
>>
>> http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html#creating-html-with-the-e-factory
> 
> That looks ugly with all those caps and also hard to extend. Notably
> it seems to be missing any functions to build HTML5 elements, unless
> those have been added in lxml 3.4.

It's actually trivial to extend, and it's designed for it. The factory
simply uses "__getattr__()", so you can ask it for any tag name. The
predefined names in the builder.py module are mainly there to easily detect
typos on user side.

https://github.com/lxml/lxml/blob/master/src/lxml/html/builder.py

If you don't like capital names for constants, just copy the module and
change the tag names to lower case, or use the blank E-factory if you feel
like it.

Stefan