On Feb 8, 4:15 pm, "mtuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking how to escape the quotation marks. I have everything > working in pyparser except for that. I don't want to drop everything > and go to a different parser. > > Can someone else help? > > Mike -
pyparsing includes a helper for constructing HTML tags called makeHTMLTags. This method does more than just wrap the given tag text within <>'s, but also comprehends attributes, upper/lower case, and various styles of quoted strings. To use it, replace your Literal definitions for spanStart and spanEnd with: spanStart, spanEnd = makeHTMLTags('span') If you don't want to match just *any* <span> tag, but say, you only want those with the class = "hpPageText", then add this parse action to spanStart: def onlyAcceptWithTagAttr(attrname,attrval): def action(tagAttrs): if not(attrname in tagAttrs and tagAttrs[attrname]==attrval): raise ParseException("",0,"") return action spanStart.setParseAction(onlyAcceptWithTagAttr("class","hpPageText")) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list