Written by BroytMann. Copyright (C) 2007 PhiloSoft Design
"""
+import re
+from sgmllib import SGMLParser, SGMLParseError
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
-from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, CData
class BSoupParser(HTMLParser):
self.icon = icon
+# http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/69093cb0d3a3cf63
+class BadDeclParser(BeautifulSoup):
+ def parse_declaration(self, i):
+ """Treat a bogus SGML declaration as raw data. Treat a CDATA
+ declaration as a CData object."""
+ j = None
+ if self.rawdata[i:i+9] == '<![CDATA[':
+ k = self.rawdata.find(']]>', i)
+ if k == -1:
+ k = len(self.rawdata)
+ data = self.rawdata[i+9:k]
+ j = k+3
+ self._toStringSubclass(data, CData)
+ else:
+ try:
+ j = SGMLParser.parse_declaration(self, i)
+ except SGMLParseError:
+ # Could not parse the DOCTYPE declaration
+ # Try to just skip the actual declaration
+ match = re.search(r'<!DOCTYPE([^>]*?)>', self.rawdata[i:], re.MULTILINE)
+ if match:
+ toHandle = self.rawdata[i:match.end()]
+ else:
+ toHandle = self.rawdata[i:]
+ self.handle_data(toHandle)
+ j = i + len(toHandle)
+ return j
+
+
def parse_html(filename, charset=None):
infile = open(filename, 'r')
try:
- root = BeautifulSoup(infile, fromEncoding=charset)
+ root = BadDeclParser(infile, fromEncoding=charset)
except TypeError:
return None
infile.close()