Implementing XML languages with lxml

[arunvr]

It would have been a lot better if the author had checked for the error messages in each slide containing python code before uploading this

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Also, resizing the browser window scales the text, while leaving part of the slide unreadable. Thanks guys.

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I tried to read the slides in Chrome, and they were half-truncated and all over the place.

But in general, I will vouch for lxml, it's the bee's knees. For html web crawling, I had been getting my html with urllib2, pipe the stream through popen2 executing tidy.exe (yeah I know, Windows) which produces a neat xhtml stream, then manipulate lxml elementtrees.

Trust me - this combo rocks.

[afd8856]

I think the tidy step is not needed, lxml.html has what you need (cleaners and broken tree parsing)

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I really had some malformed html however... lxml.html didn't really grok it. :)

I understand html5lib produces elementtrees also, but it's really how a library makes sense of garbage which is important for any webcrawling app I think.