Stefan Behnel schrieb:
>> So I need to build hyperlinks (a elements) with href attribute and
>> replace the text elements (numbers) somehow.
>
> Try lxml.html instead. It makes it really easy to do these things. For
> example, you can use XPath to find all table cells that contain numbers:
>
> td_list = doc.xpath("//td[number() >= 0]")
>
> or maybe using regular expressions to make sure it's an int:
>
> td_list = doc.xpath("//td[re:match(., '^[0-9]+$')]",
> namespaces={'re':'http://exslt.org/regular-expressions'})
>
> and then replace them by a hyperlink:
>
> # assuming links = ['http://...', ...]
>
> from lxml.html.builder import A
> for td in td_list:
> index = int(td.text)
> a = A("some text", href=links[index])
> td.getparent().replace(td, a)
Oh no! I was looking for something like this for *ages* but always
fought with minidom - where this is a real pain :-(
Had I only known before that such a wonderful library exists. I'll
definitely use lxml from now on. Does it compile with Python3?
Kind regards,
Johannes
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