HTML5Lib (Python) 0.95 / 1.0b1

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It follows the original WHATWG official HTML5 specification.

The parser is designed to handle all flavours of HTML and parses invalid documents using well-defined error handling rules compatible with the behaviour of major desktop web browsers.

The output is palced inside a tree structure.

It supports output to ElementTree, DOM and lxml tree formats as well as a simple custom format.

HTML5Lib is packaged with distutils.

HTML5Lib is also available in:

Ruby - download HTML5Lib for Ruby here.
Python - download HTML5Lib for Python here.
PHP - download HTML5Lib for PHP here.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Parses valid and invalid HTML documents to a tree
· Support for minidom, ElementTree (including cElementTree and lxml.etree), BeautifulSoup (deprecated) and custom simpletree output formats
· DOM to SAX converter
· Reports parse errors
· Character encoding detection
· Filtering and serializing of trees
· HTML+CSS sanitizer
· Many unit tests

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