Re: [xml] Applying XSLT to HTML

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier tapsellferrier co uk>]

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de> writes:

> Dmitry Dzhus wrote:
> > My aim is to apply XSLT to some HTML document (which may be broken
> > just a little). 
> >
> > I'm using standard Python libxml2/libxslt bindings.
> >
> > My code is:
> >
> >    mf_extract = libxslt.parseStylesheetFile("mf-extract.xsl")
> >    
> >    doc = libxml2.readHtmlFile(url, None, libxml2.HTML_PARSE_RECOVER)
> >    
> >    mf_extract.applyStylesheet(doc, None)
> >
> > Applying XSLT results as if there were no content in `doc` tree at
> > all. Using `readFile` instead of `readHtmlFile` works fine as
> > expected.
> >
> > I tried to `print doc` after using both `readHtmlFile` and `readFile`
> > and noticed that, given the input document is well-formed, the output
> > differs only in XML declaration at the very beginning.
> >
> > As I understand (and `document.type` indicates), using `readFile` and
> > `readHtmlFile` results in different kinds of documents --
> > `document_xml` and `document_html` -- while applying XSLT is only
> > possible with `document_xml` one. Is there any way to convert
> > `document_html` to `document_xml`?

Try the recover methods.


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