BeautifulSoup::BeautifulSOAP Class Reference

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Public Member Functions
def	popTag
def	popTag

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Detailed Description

This class will push a tag with only a single string child into
the tag's parent as an attribute. The attribute's name is the tag
name, and the value is the string child. An example should give
the flavor of the change:

<foo><bar>baz</bar></foo>
 =>
<foo bar="baz"><bar>baz</bar></foo>

You can then access fooTag['bar'] instead of fooTag.barTag.string.

This is, of course, useful for scraping structures that tend to
use subelements instead of attributes, such as SOAP messages. Note
that it modifies its input, so don't print the modified version
out.

I'm not sure how many people really want to use this class; let me
know if you do. Mainly I like the name.

Definition at line 1653 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

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Member Function Documentation

def BeautifulSoup::BeautifulSOAP::popTag

(

self

)

Reimplemented from BeautifulSoup::BeautifulStoneSoup.

Definition at line 1673 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

01674                     :
01675         if len(self.tagStack) > 1:
01676             tag = self.tagStack[-1]
01677             parent = self.tagStack[-2]
01678             parent._getAttrMap()
01679             if (isinstance(tag, Tag) and len(tag.contents) == 1 and
01680                 isinstance(tag.contents[0], NavigableString) and
01681                 not parent.attrMap.has_key(tag.name)):
01682                 parent[tag.name] = tag.contents[0]
01683         BeautifulStoneSoup.popTag(self)
01684 
01685 #Enterprise class names! It has come to our attention that some people
01686 #think the names of the Beautiful Soup parser classes are too silly
01687 #and "unprofessional" for use in enterprise screen-scraping. We feel
01688 #your pain! For such-minded folk, the Beautiful Soup Consortium And
01689 #All-Night Kosher Bakery recommends renaming this file to
01690 #"RobustParser.py" (or, in cases of extreme enterprisiness,
01691 #"RobustParserBeanInterface.class") and using the following
#enterprise-friendly class aliases:

def BeautifulSoup::BeautifulSOAP::popTag

(

self

)

Reimplemented from BeautifulSoup::BeautifulStoneSoup.

Definition at line 1673 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

01674                     :
01675         if len(self.tagStack) > 1:
01676             tag = self.tagStack[-1]
01677             parent = self.tagStack[-2]
01678             parent._getAttrMap()
01679             if (isinstance(tag, Tag) and len(tag.contents) == 1 and
01680                 isinstance(tag.contents[0], NavigableString) and
01681                 not parent.attrMap.has_key(tag.name)):
01682                 parent[tag.name] = tag.contents[0]
01683         BeautifulStoneSoup.popTag(self)
01684 
01685 #Enterprise class names! It has come to our attention that some people
01686 #think the names of the Beautiful Soup parser classes are too silly
01687 #and "unprofessional" for use in enterprise screen-scraping. We feel
01688 #your pain! For such-minded folk, the Beautiful Soup Consortium And
01689 #All-Night Kosher Bakery recommends renaming this file to
01690 #"RobustParser.py" (or, in cases of extreme enterprisiness,
01691 #"RobustParserBeanInterface.class") and using the following
#enterprise-friendly class aliases: