[Tutor] Problem with BeautifulSoup

[Kent Johnson]

Oh, what if you try

class MyBeautifulSoup(BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup):
    NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['sceneobject', 'parameters', 'parameter', 'shader']
    NESTABLE_TAGS = buildTagMap([], NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS)


Bernard Lebel wrote:
> I know I should be doing that. But somehow it doesn't work (ie I keep
> getting mangled XML tree).
> 
> Bernard
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/30/05, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> 
>>Bernard Lebel wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Kent,
>>>
>>>Well I have decided to get this sorted once and for all. Not that I
>>>don't like ElementTree, but the fack is that BeautifulSoup uses a near
>>>identical syntax to the 3D application SDK's object model I'm using it
>>>with, making interaction between the 3D and the XML extremely
>>>transparent. Anyway, here is what I did.
>>>
>>>I simply modified the BeautifulSoup class, and added my own nestable
>>>tags to the list of NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS:
>>>
>>>NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del']
>>>
>>>became
>>>
>>>NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del',
>>>'sceneobject', 'parameters', 'parameter', 'shader']
>>
>>For your purposes I think you should be able to just do
>>class MyBeautifulSoup(BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup):
>>    NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['sceneobject', 'parameters', 'parameter', 'shader']
>>
>>since presumably you don't need special handling for 'ol', 'ul', etc that BeautifulSoup has.
>>
>>In any event there is no need to modify BS, better to make your own BSS subclass.
>>
>>Kent
>>
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