Class BeautifulSoup

pattern/web/soup/BeautifulSoup.py:1470–1621

This parser knows the following facts about HTML: * Some tags have no closing tag and should be interpreted as being closed as soon as they are encountered. * The text inside some tags (ie. 'script') may contain tags which are not really part of the document and which should be

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class BeautifulSoup(BeautifulStoneSoup):

    """This parser knows the following facts about HTML:

    * Some tags have no closing tag and should be interpreted as being
      closed as soon as they are encountered.

    * The text inside some tags (ie. 'script') may contain tags which
      are not really part of the document and which should be parsed
      as text, not tags. If you want to parse the text as tags, you can
      always fetch it and parse it explicitly.

    * Tag nesting rules:

      Most tags can't be nested at all. For instance, the occurance of
      a <p> tag should implicitly close the previous <p> tag.

       <p>Para1<p>Para2
        should be transformed into:
       <p>Para1</p><p>Para2

      Some tags can be nested arbitrarily. For instance, the occurance
      of a <blockquote> tag should _not_ implicitly close the previous
      <blockquote> tag.

       Alice said: <blockquote>Bob said: <blockquote>Blah
        should NOT be transformed into:
       Alice said: <blockquote>Bob said: </blockquote><blockquote>Blah

      Some tags can be nested, but the nesting is reset by the
      interposition of other tags. For instance, a <tr> tag should
      implicitly close the previous <tr> tag within the same <table>,
      but not close a <tr> tag in another table.

       <table><tr>Blah<tr>Blah
        should be transformed into:
       <table><tr>Blah</tr><tr>Blah
        but,
       <tr>Blah<table><tr>Blah
        should NOT be transformed into
       <tr>Blah<table></tr><tr>Blah

    Differing assumptions about tag nesting rules are a major source
    of problems with the BeautifulSoup class. If BeautifulSoup is not
    treating as nestable a tag your page author treats as nestable,
    try ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup, MinimalSoup, or
    BeautifulStoneSoup before writing your own subclass."""

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if not kwargs.has_key('smartQuotesTo'):
            kwargs['smartQuotesTo'] = self.HTML_ENTITIES
        kwargs['isHTML'] = True
        BeautifulStoneSoup.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

    SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = buildTagMap(None,
                                    ('br' , 'hr', 'input', 'img', 'meta',
                                    'spacer', 'link', 'frame', 'base', 'col'))