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\section{\module{HTMLParser} ---
Simple HTML and XHTML parser}
\declaremodule{standard}{HTMLParser}
\modulesynopsis{A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML.}
\versionadded{2.2}
This module defines a class \class{HTMLParser} which serves as the
basis for parsing text files formatted in HTML\index{HTML} (HyperText
Mark-up Language) and XHTML.\index{XHTML} Unlike the parser in
\refmodule{htmllib}, this parser is not based on the SGML parser in
\refmodule{sgmllib}.
\begin{classdesc}{HTMLParser}{}
The \class{HTMLParser} class is instantiated without arguments.
An HTMLParser instance is fed HTML data and calls handler functions
when tags begin and end. The \class{HTMLParser} class is meant to be
overridden by the user to provide a desired behavior.
Unlike the parser in \refmodule{htmllib}, this parser does not check
that end tags match start tags or call the end-tag handler for
elements which are closed implicitly by closing an outer element.
\end{classdesc}
An exception is defined as well:
\begin{excdesc}{HTMLParseError}
Exception raised by the \class{HTMLParser} class when it encounters an
error while parsing. This exception provides three attributes:
\member{msg} is a brief message explaining the error, \member{lineno}
is the number of the line on which the broken construct was detected,
and \member{offset} is the number of characters into the line at which
the construct starts.
\end{excdesc}
\class{HTMLParser} instances have the following methods:
\begin{methoddesc}{reset}{}
Reset the instance. Loses all unprocessed data. This is called
implicitly at instantiation time.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{feed}{data}
Feed some text to the parser. It is processed insofar as it consists
of complete elements; incomplete data is buffered until more data is
fed or \method{close()} is called.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{close}{}
Force processing of all buffered data as if it were followed by an
end-of-file mark. This method may be redefined by a derived class to
define additional processing at the end of the input, but the
redefined version should always call the \class{HTMLParser} base class
method \method{close()}.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{getpos}{}
Return current line number and offset.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{get_starttag_text}{}
Return the text of the most recently opened start tag. This should
not normally be needed for structured processing, but may be useful in
dealing with HTML ``as deployed'' or for re-generating input with
minimal changes (whitespace between attributes can be preserved,
etc.).
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_starttag}{tag, attrs}
This method is called to handle the start of a tag. It is intended to
be overridden by a derived class; the base class implementation does
nothing.
The \var{tag} argument is the name of the tag converted to lower case.
The \var{attrs} argument is a list of \code{(\var{name}, \var{value})}
pairs containing the attributes found inside the tag's \code{<>}
brackets. The \var{name} will be translated to lower case, and quotes
in the \var{value} have been removed, and character and entity
references have been replaced. For instance, for the tag \code{<A
HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/">}, this method would be called as
\samp{handle_starttag('a', [('href', 'http://www.cwi.nl/')])}.
\versionchanged[All entity references from htmlentitydefs are now
replaced in the attribute values]{2.6}
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_startendtag}{tag, attrs}
Similar to \method{handle_starttag()}, but called when the parser
encounters an XHTML-style empty tag (\code{<a .../>}). This method
may be overridden by subclasses which require this particular lexical
information; the default implementation simple calls
\method{handle_starttag()} and \method{handle_endtag()}.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_endtag}{tag}
This method is called to handle the end tag of an element. It is
intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
implementation does nothing. The \var{tag} argument is the name of
the tag converted to lower case.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_data}{data}
This method is called to process arbitrary data. It is intended to be
overridden by a derived class; the base class implementation does
nothing.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_charref}{name} This method is called to
process a character reference of the form \samp{\&\#\var{ref};}. It
is intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
implementation does nothing.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_entityref}{name}
This method is called to process a general entity reference of the
form \samp{\&\var{name};} where \var{name} is an general entity
reference. It is intended to be overridden by a derived class; the
base class implementation does nothing.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_comment}{data}
This method is called when a comment is encountered. The
\var{comment} argument is a string containing the text between the
\samp{--} and \samp{--} delimiters, but not the delimiters
themselves. For example, the comment \samp{<!--text-->} will
cause this method to be called with the argument \code{'text'}. It is
intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
implementation does nothing.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_decl}{decl}
Method called when an SGML declaration is read by the parser. The
\var{decl} parameter will be the entire contents of the declaration
inside the \code{<!}...\code{>} markup. It is intended to be overridden
by a derived class; the base class implementation does nothing.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_pi}{data}
Method called when a processing instruction is encountered. The
\var{data} parameter will contain the entire processing instruction.
For example, for the processing instruction \code{<?proc color='red'>},
this method would be called as \code{handle_pi("proc color='red'")}. It
is intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
implementation does nothing.
\note{The \class{HTMLParser} class uses the SGML syntactic rules for
processing instructions. An XHTML processing instruction using the
trailing \character{?} will cause the \character{?} to be included in
\var{data}.}
\end{methoddesc}
\subsection{Example HTML Parser Application \label{htmlparser-example}}
As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the
\class{HTMLParser} class to print out tags as they are encountered:
\begin{verbatim}
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(self, tag):
print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag
\end{verbatim}
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