Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
"Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
hi, I've got lots of xhtml pages that need to be fed to MS HTML Workshop to
create CHM files. That application really hates xhtml, so I need to convert
self-ending tags (e.g. <br />) to plain html (e.g. <br>).
Seems simple enough, but I'm having some trouble with it. regexps trip up
because I also have to take into account 'img', 'meta', 'link' tags, not
just the simple 'br' and 'hr' tags. Well, maybe there's a simple way to do
that with regexps, but my simpleminded <img[^(/>)]+/> doesn't work. I'm not
enough of a regexp pro to figure out that lookahead stuff.
Hi, I'm not sure if this is very helpful but the following works on
the very simple example below.
import re
xhtml = '<p>hello <img src="/img.png"/> spam <br/> bye </p>'
xtag = re.compile(r'<([^>]*?)/>')
xtag.sub(r'<\1>', xhtml)
'<p>hello <img src="/img.png"> spam <br> bye </p>'
You might try XIST (http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist):
Code looks like this:
from ll.xist import parsers
from ll.xist.ns import html
xhtml = '<p>hello <img src="/img.png"/> spam <br/> bye </p>'
doc = parsers.parsestring(xhtml)
print doc.bytes(xhtml=0)
This outputs:
<p>hello <img src="/img.png"> spam <br> bye </p>
(and a warning that the alt attribute is missing in the img ;))
Servus,
Walter
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