Mutating an HTML file with BeautifulSoup

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 at 10:04, Buck Evan <buck.2019 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've had much success doing round trips through the lxml.html parser.
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> https://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html
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> I ditched bs for lxml long ago and never regretted it.
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> If you find that you have a bunch of invalid html that lxml inadvertently "fixes", I would recommend adding a stutter-step to your project: perform a noop roundtrip thru lxml on all files. I'd then analyze any diff by progressively excluding changes via `grep -vP`.
> Unless I'm mistaken, all such changes should fall into no more than a dozen groups.
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Will this round-trip mutate every single file and reorder the tag
attributes? Because I really don't want to manually eyeball all those
changes.

ChrisA