Let's say I wanted to remove vowels from HTML:
<a href="foo">Hello there!</a>Hi!
becomes
<a href="foo">Hll thr!</a>H!
I figure this is a job for Beautiful Soup. How can I select the text in between tags and operate on it like this?
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A:
Suppose the variable test_html has the following html content:
<html>
<head><title>Test title</title></head>
<body>
<p>Some paragraph</p>
Useless Text
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Some link</a>not a link
<a href="http://python.org">Another link</a>
</body></html>
Just do this:
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
test_html = load_html_from_above()
soup = BeautifulSoup(test_html)
for t in soup.findAll(text=True):
text = unicode(t)
for vowel in u'aeiou':
text = text.replace(vowel, u'')
t.replaceWith(text)
print soup
That prints:
<html>
<head><title>Tst ttl</title></head>
<body>
<p>Sm prgrph</p>
Uslss Txt
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">Sm lnk</a>nt lnk
<a href="http://python.org">Anthr lnk</a>
</body></html>
Note that the tags and attributes are untouched.
nosklo
2009-05-06 20:18:58