Method start_meta

old/old-code/BeautifulSoup.py:1571–1616

Beautiful Soup can detect a charset included in a META tag, try to convert the document to that charset, and re-parse the document from the beginning.

(self, attrs)

    CHARSET_RE = re.compile("((^|;)\s*charset=)([^;]*)", re.M)

    def start_meta(self, attrs):
        """Beautiful Soup can detect a charset included in a META tag,
        try to convert the document to that charset, and re-parse the
        document from the beginning."""
        httpEquiv = None
        contentType = None
        contentTypeIndex = None
        tagNeedsEncodingSubstitution = False

        for i in range(0, len(attrs)):
            key, value = attrs[i]
            key = key.lower()
            if key == 'http-equiv':
                httpEquiv = value
            elif key == 'content':
                contentType = value
                contentTypeIndex = i

        if httpEquiv and contentType: # It's an interesting meta tag.
            match = self.CHARSET_RE.search(contentType)
            if match:
                if (self.declaredHTMLEncoding is not None or
                    self.originalEncoding == self.fromEncoding):
                    # An HTML encoding was sniffed while converting
                    # the document to Unicode, or an HTML encoding was
                    # sniffed during a previous pass through the
                    # document, or an encoding was specified
                    # explicitly and it worked. Rewrite the meta tag.
                    def rewrite(match):
                        return match.group(1) + "%SOUP-ENCODING%"
                    newAttr = self.CHARSET_RE.sub(rewrite, contentType)
                    attrs[contentTypeIndex] = (attrs[contentTypeIndex][0],
                                               newAttr)
                    tagNeedsEncodingSubstitution = True
                else:
                    # This is our first pass through the document.
                    # Go through it again with the encoding information.
                    newCharset = match.group(3)
                    if newCharset and newCharset != self.originalEncoding:
                        self.declaredHTMLEncoding = newCharset
                        self._feed(self.declaredHTMLEncoding)
                        raise StopParsing
                    pass
        tag = self.unknown_starttag("meta", attrs)
        if tag and tagNeedsEncodingSubstitution:
            tag.containsSubstitutions = True

class StopParsing(Exception):
    pass