pkgsrc/www/py-beautifulsoup/DESCR

Beautiful Soup parses arbitrarily invalid XML- or HTML-like substance
into a tree representation. It provides methods and Pythonic idioms
that make it easy to search and modify the tree.

A well-formed XML/HTML document will yield a well-formed data
structure. An ill-formed XML/HTML document will yield a correspondingly
ill-formed data structure. If your document is only locally
well-formed, you can use this library to find and process the
well-formed part of it. The BeautifulSoup class has heuristics for
obtaining a sensible parse tree in the face of common HTML errors.
Add BeautifullSoup package. Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away. 2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application. 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding. 2008-09-05 17:46:51 +02:00			`Beautiful Soup parses arbitrarily invalid XML- or HTML-like substance`
			`into a tree representation. It provides methods and Pythonic idioms`
			`that make it easy to search and modify the tree.`

			`A well-formed XML/HTML document will yield a well-formed data`
Remove homepage URL from DESCR. 2008-12-10 13:32:27 +01:00			`structure. An ill-formed XML/HTML document will yield a correspondingly`
			`ill-formed data structure. If your document is only locally`
			`well-formed, you can use this library to find and process the`
Add BeautifullSoup package. Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away. 2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application. 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding. 2008-09-05 17:46:51 +02:00			`well-formed part of it. The BeautifulSoup class has heuristics for`
			`obtaining a sensible parse tree in the face of common HTML errors.`