BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSOAP Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSOAP:

Public Member Functions
def	popTag
def	popTag
Public Member Functions inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
def	__init__
def	__init__
def	endData
def	endData
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
def	extractCharsetFromMeta
def	handle_data
def	handle_data
def	isSelfClosingTag
def	isSelfClosingTag
def	popTag
def	popTag
def	pushTag
def	pushTag
def	reset
def	reset
def	unknown_endtag
def	unknown_endtag
def	unknown_starttag
def	unknown_starttag
Public Member Functions inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
def	append
def	append
def	extract
def	extract
def	findAllNext
def	findAllNext
def	findAllPrevious
def	findAllPrevious
def	findNext
def	findNext
def	findNextSibling
def	findNextSibling
def	findNextSiblings
def	findNextSiblings
def	findParent
def	findParent
def	findParents
def	findParents
def	findPrevious
def	findPrevious
def	findPreviousSibling
def	findPreviousSibling
def	findPreviousSiblings
def	findPreviousSiblings
def	insert
def	insert
def	nextGenerator
def	nextGenerator
def	nextSiblingGenerator
def	nextSiblingGenerator
def	parentGenerator
def	parentGenerator
def	previousGenerator
def	previousGenerator
def	previousSiblingGenerator
def	previousSiblingGenerator
def	replaceWith
def	replaceWith
def	setup
def	setup
def	substituteEncoding
def	substituteEncoding
def	toEncoding
def	toEncoding

Additional Inherited Members
Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
	builder
	convertEntities
	convertHTMLEntities
	convertXMLEntities
	currentData
	currentTag
	declaredHTMLEncoding
	escapeUnrecognizedEntities
	fromEncoding
	hidden
	instanceSelfClosingTags
	literal
	markup
	markupMassage
	originalEncoding
	parseOnlyThese
	previous
	quoteStack
	smartQuotesTo
	tagStack
Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
	next
	nextSibling
	parent
	previous
	previousSibling
Static Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup
	ALL_ENTITIES = XHTML_ENTITIES
string	HTML_ENTITIES = "html"
list	MARKUP_MASSAGE
dictionary	NESTABLE_TAGS = {}
list	PRESERVE_WHITESPACE_TAGS = []
dictionary	QUOTE_TAGS = {}
dictionary	RESET_NESTING_TAGS = {}
string	ROOT_TAG_NAME = u'[document]'
dictionary	SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = {}
dictionary	STRIP_ASCII_SPACES = { 9: None, 10: None, 12: None, 13: None, 32: None, }
string	XHTML_ENTITIES = "xhtml"
string	XML_ENTITIES = "xml"
Static Public Attributes inherited from BeautifulSoup.PageElement
	fetchNextSiblings = findNextSiblings
	fetchParents = findParents
	fetchPrevious = findAllPrevious
	fetchPreviousSiblings = findPreviousSiblings

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.

Member Function Documentation

def BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSOAP.popTag

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self

)

Definition at line 1673 of file BeautifulSoup.py.

References BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup.tagStack.

Referenced by BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSOAP.popTag().

    def popTag(self):
        if len(self.tagStack) > 1:
            tag = self.tagStack[-1]
            parent = self.tagStack[-2]
            parent._getAttrMap()
            if (isinstance(tag, Tag) and len(tag.contents) == 1 and
                isinstance(tag.contents[0], NavigableString) and
                not parent.attrMap.has_key(tag.name)):
                parent[tag.name] = tag.contents[0]
        BeautifulStoneSoup.popTag(self)

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#think the names of the Beautiful Soup parser classes are too silly
#and "unprofessional" for use in enterprise screen-scraping. We feel
#your pain! For such-minded folk, the Beautiful Soup Consortium And
#All-Night Kosher Bakery recommends renaming this file to
#"RobustParser.py" (or, in cases of extreme enterprisiness,
#"RobustParserBeanInterface.class") and using the following