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Parse Html Body Fragment In Lxml

I'm trying to parse a fragment of html:

title

I use lxml.html.fromstring. And it is driving me insane because it ke

Solution 1:

.fragment_fromstring() removes the <html> tag as well; basically, whenever you do not have a HTML document (with a <html> top-level element and/or a doctype), .fromstring() falls back to .fragment_fromstring() and that method removes both the <html> and the <body> tags, always.

The work-around is to tell .fragment_fromstring() to give you a <body>parent tag:

>>> lxml.html.fragment_fromstring('<body><h1>a</h1></body>', create_parent='body')
<Elementbodyat0x10d06fbf0>

This does not preserve any attributes on the original <body> tag.

Another work-around is to use the .document_fromstring() method, which will wrap your document in a <html> tag, which you then can remove again:

>>> lxml.html.document_fromstring('<body><h1>a</h1></body>')[0]
<Elementbodyat0x10d06fcb0>

This does preserve attributes on the <body>:

>>> lxml.html.document_fromstring('<bodyclass="foo"><h1>a</h1></body>')[0].attrib
{'class': 'foo'}

Using the .document_fromstring() function on your first example gives:

>>> body = lxml.html.document_fromstring('<body><h1>title</h1><imgsrc=""></body>')[0]
>>> lxml.html.tostring(body)
'<body><h1>title</h1><imgsrc=""></body>'

If you only want to do this if there is no HTML tag, do what lxml.html.fromstring() does and test for a full document:

htmltest = lxml.html._looks_like_full_html_bytes ifisinstance(inputtext, str)else lxml.html._looks_like_full_html_unicode
ifhtmltest(inputtext):
    tree = lxml.html.fromstring(inputtext)
else:
    tree = lxml.html.document_fromstring(inputtext)[0]

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