"""HTMLTag.py HTMLTag defines a class of the same name that represents HTML content. An additional HTMLReader class kicks off the process of reading an HTML file into a set of tags: from WebUtils.HTMLTag import HTMLReader reader = HTMLReader() tag = reader.readFileNamed('foo.html') tag.pprint() Tags have attributes and children, which makes them hierarchical. See HTMLTag class docs for more info. Note that you imported HTMLReader instead of HTMLTag. You only need the latter if you plan on creating tags directly. You can discard the reader immediately if you like: tag = HTMLReader().readFileNamed('foo.html') The point of reading HTML into tag objects is so that you have a concrete, Pythonic data structure to work with. The original motiviation for such a beast was in building automated regression test suites that wanted granular, structured access to the HTML output by the web application. See the doc string for HTMLTag for examples of what you can do with tags. CAVEATS * HTMLReader needs special attention with regards to tags like

and

  • which sometimes are closed (

    • ) and sometimes not. See its doc string for full information. * HTMLReader is picky about the correctness of the HTML you feed it. Again see the class docs for full info. TO DO * See the TO DO sections for each class. CREDITS * I didn't grok how to write an SGMLParser subclass until I read the very small example by Sean McGrath at http://www.digitome.com/html2pyx.py (which I believe is broken for empty tags). * Determined what HTML tags are empty by scanning O'Reilly's HTML Pocket Reference. """ import sys from sgmllib import SGMLParser from MiscUtils import NoDefault, AbstractError # If enabled, overrides some key SGMLParser methods for more speed. # Changing this has no effect once the module is imported (unless you reload()). runFast = True class HTMLTagError(Exception): """General HTML tag error""" def __init__(self, msg, **values): Exception.__init__(self, msg) self.values = values.copy() class HTMLTagAttrLookupError(HTMLTagError, LookupError): """HTML tag attribute lookup error""" class HTMLTagUnbalancedError(HTMLTagError): """Unbalanced HTML tag error""" class HTMLNotAllowedError(HTMLTagError): """HTML tag not allowed here error""" class HTMLTagProcessingInstructionError(HTMLTagError): """HTML tag processing instruction error""" class HTMLTagIncompleteError(HTMLTagError): """HTML tag incomplete error""" DefaultEmptyTags = ('area basefont base bgsound br col colgroup frame hr' ' img input isindex link meta spacer wbr').split() class HTMLTag(object): """Container class for representing HTML as tag objects. Tags essentially have 4 major attributes: * name * attributes * children * subtags Name is simple: print tag.name() Attributes are dictionary-like in nature: print tag.attr('color') # throws an exception if no color print tag.attr('bgcolor', None) # returns None if no bgcolor print tag.attrs() Children are all the leaf parts of a tag, consisting of other tags and strings of character data. print tag.numChildren() print tag.childAt(0) print tag.children() Subtags is a convenient list of only the tags in the children: print tag.numSubtags() print tag.subtagAt(0) print tag.subtags() You can search a tag and all the tags it contains for a tag with a particular attribute matching a particular value: print tag.tagWithMatchingAttr('width', '100%') An HTMLTagAttrLookupError is raised if no matching tag is found. You can avoid this by providing a default value: print tag.tagWithMatchingAttr('width', '100%', None) Looking for specific 'id' attributes is common in regression testing (it allows you to zero in on logical portions of a page), so a convenience method is provided: tag = htmlTag.tagWithId('accountTable') TO DO * A walker() method for traversing the tag tree. * Search for a subtag with a given name, recursive or not. * Attribute traversal with dotted notation? * Do we need to convert tag names and attribute names to lower case, or does SGMLParser already do that? * Should attribute values be strip()ed? Probably not. SGMLParser probably strips them already unless they really do have spaces as in " quoted ". But that's speculation. """ ## Init and reading ## def __init__(self, name, lineNumber=None): assert '\n' not in name self._name = name self._attrs = {} self._children = [] self._subtags = [] self._lineNumber = lineNumber # Used by closedBy() and __repr__, helps with HTMLReader error messages: self._isClosed = False def readAttr(self, name, value): """Set an attribute of the tag with the given name and value. An assertion fails if an attribute is set twice. """ assert name not in self._attrs, 'name = %r, attrs = %r' % (name, attrs) self._attrs[name] = value def addChild(self, child): """Add a child to the receiver. The child will be another tag or a string (CDATA). """ assert isinstance(child, (basestring, HTMLTag)), 'Invalid child: %r' % child self._children.append(child) if isinstance(child, HTMLTag): self._subtags.append(child) ## Access ## def name(self): return self._name def attr(self, name, default=NoDefault): if default is NoDefault: return self._attrs[name] else: return self._attrs.get(name, default) def hasAttr(self, name): return name in self._attrs def attrs(self): return self._attrs def numAttrs(self): return len(self._attrs) def childAt(self, index): return self._children[index] def numChildren(self): return len(self._children) def children(self): return self._children def subtagAt(self, index): return self._subtags[index] def numSubtags(self): return len(self._subtags) def subtags(self): return self._subtags ## Printing ## def pprint(self, out=None, indent=0): if out is None: out = sys.stdout wr = out.write spacer = ' '*4*indent wr('%s<%s>\n' % (spacer, self._name)) for key, value in self._attrs.items(): wr('%s %s = %s\n' % (spacer, key.ljust(12), value)) indent += 1 for child in self._children: if isinstance(child, HTMLTag): child.pprint(out, indent) else: wr('%s %s\n' % (spacer, child)) wr('%s\n' % (spacer, self._name)) # Note: Printing a closing tag for an empty tag (such as
    ) # doesn't make much sense, but then it's a good reminder that # certain tags like

    are closed immediately. def __repr__(self): r = ['<', self._name] if self._attrs: for key in sorted(self._attrs): r.extend([' ', key, '="', self._attrs[key], '"']) r.append('>') if self._lineNumber or self._isClosed: r.append(' (') if self._lineNumber: r.append('%s' % self._lineNumber) if self._isClosed: if self._lineNumber: r.append('; ') r.append('closed by %s at %s' % (self._closedBy, self._closedAt)) r.append(')') r = ''.join(r) return r ## Searching ## def tagWithMatchingAttr(self, name, value, default=NoDefault): """Search for tag with matching attributes. Performs a depth-first search for a tag with an attribute that matches the given value. If the tag cannot be found, a KeyError will be raised *unless* a default value was specified, which is then returned. tag = tag.tagWithMatchingAttr('bgcolor', '#FFFF', None) """ tag = self._tagWithMatchingAttr(name, value) if tag is None: if default is NoDefault: raise HTMLTagAttrLookupError('name = %r, value = %r' % (name, value), name=name, value=value) else: return default else: return tag def tagWithId(self, id, default=NoDefault): """Search for tag with a given id. Finds and returns the tag with the given id. As in: bar This is just a cover for: tagWithMatchingAttr('id', id, default) But searching for id's is so popular (at least in regression testing web sites) that this convenience method is provided. Why is it so popular? Because by attaching ids to logical portions of your HTML, your regression test suite can quickly zero in on them for examination. """ return self.tagWithMatchingAttr('id', id, default) ## Parsing (HTMLReader) ## def closedBy(self, name, lineNumber): self._isClosed = True self._closedBy = name self._closedAt = lineNumber ## Self utility ## def _tagWithMatchingAttr(self, name, value): """Search for tag with matching attributes. Performs a depth-first search for a tag with an attribute that matches the given value. Returns None if the tag cannot be found. The method tagWithMatchingAttr() (e.g., sans underscore) is more commonly used. """ if self._attrs.get(name) == value: return self for tag in self._subtags: matchingTag = tag._tagWithMatchingAttr(name, value) if matchingTag: return matchingTag return None class HTMLReader(SGMLParser): """Reader class for representing HTML as tag objects. NOTES * Special attention is required regarding tags like

    and

  • which sometimes are closed and sometimes not. HTMLReader can deal with both situations (closed and not) provided that: * the file doesn't change conventions for a given tag * the reader knows ahead of time what to expect Be default, HTMLReader assumes that

    and

  • will be closed with

    and
    • as the official HTML spec, as well as upcomer XHTML, encourage or require, respectively. But if your files don't close certain tags that are supposed to be required, you can do this: HTMLReader(extraEmptyTags=['p', 'li']) or: reader.extendEmptyTags(['p', 'li']) or just set them entirely: HTMLReader(emptyTags=['br', 'hr', 'p']) reader.setEmptyTags(['br', 'hr', 'p']) Although there are quite a few. Consider the DefaultEmptyTags global list (which is used to initialize the reader's tags) which contains about 16 tag names. If an HTML file doesn't conform to the reader's expectation, you will get an exception (see more below for details). If your HTML file doesn't contain root ... tags wrapping everything, a fake root tag will be constructed for you, unless you pass in fakeRootTagIfNeeded=False. Besides fixing your reader manually, you could conceivably loop through the permutations of the various empty tags to see if one of them resulted in a correct read. Or you could fix the HTML. * The reader ignores extra preceding and trailing whitespace by stripping it from strings. I suppose this is a little harsher than reducing spans of preceding and trailing whitespace down to one space, which is what really happens in an HTML browser. * The reader will not read past the closing tag. * The reader is picky about the correctness of the HTML you feed it. If tags are not closed, overlap (instead of nest) or left unfinished, an exception is thrown. These include HTMLTagUnbalancedError, HTMLTagIncompleteError and HTMLNotAllowedError which all inherit HTMLTagError. This pickiness can be quite useful for the validation of the HTML of your own applications. I believe it is possible that others kinds of HTML errors could raise exceptions from sgmlib.SGMLParser (from which HTMLReader inherits), although in practice, I have not seen them. TO DO * Could the "empty" tag issue be dealt with more sophistication by automatically closing

    and

  • (e.g., popping them off the _tagStack) when other major tags were encountered such as

    ,

  • , ,
    , etc.? * Readers don't handle processing instructions: . * The tagContainmentConfig class var can certainly be expanded for even better validation. """ ## Init ## def __init__(self, emptyTags=None, extraEmptyTags=None, fakeRootTagIfNeeded=True): SGMLParser.__init__(self) self._filename = None self._rootTag = None self._fakeRootTagIfNeeded = fakeRootTagIfNeeded self._usedFakeRootTag = False self._tagStack = [] self._finished = False # Options self._printsStack = False self._ignoreWS = True self._endingTag = 'html' # Handle optional args if emptyTags is not None: self.setEmptyTags(emptyTags) else: self.setEmptyTags(DefaultEmptyTags) if extraEmptyTags is not None: self.extendEmptyTags(extraEmptyTags) ## Reading ## def readFileNamed(self, filename, retainRootTag=True): """Read the given file. Relies on readString(). See that method for more information. """ self._filename = filename contents = open(filename).read() return self.readString(contents, retainRootTag) def readString(self, string, retainRootTag=True): """Read the given string, store the results and return the root tag. You could continue to use HTMLReader object or disregard it and simply use the root tag. """ self._rootTag = None self._tagStack = [] self._finished = False self.reset() self._lineNumber = 1 self.computeTagContainmentConfig() try: for line in string.splitlines(): self.feed(line + '\n') self._lineNumber += 1 self.close() finally: self.reset() if retainRootTag: return self._rootTag else: tag = self._rootTag self._rootTag = None return tag ## Printing ## def pprint(self, out=None): """Pretty prints the tag, its attributes and all its children. Indentation is used for subtags. Print 'Empty.' if there is no root tag. """ if self._rootTag: self._rootTag.pprint(out) else: if out is None: out = sys.stdout out.write('Empty.') ## Access ## def rootTag(self): """Return the root tag. May return None if no HTML has been read yet, or if the last invocation of one of the read methods was passed retainRootTag=False. """ return self._rootTag def filename(self): """Return the filename that was read, or None if no file was processed.""" return self._filename def emptyTags(self): """Return a list of empty tags. See also: class docs and setEmptyTags(). """ return self._emptyTagList def setEmptyTags(self, tagList): """Set the HTML tags that are considered empty such as
    and
    . The default is found in the global, DefaultEmptyTags, and is fairly thorough, but does not include

    ,

  • and some other tags that HTML authors often use as empty tags. """ self._emptyTagList = list(tagList) self._updateEmptyTagSet() def extendEmptyTags(self, tagList): """Extend the current list of empty tags with the given list.""" self._emptyTagList.extend(tagList) self._updateEmptyTagSet() ## Debugging ## def printsStack(self): return self._printsStack def setPrintsStack(self, flag): """Set the boolean value of the "prints stack" option. This is a debugging option which will print the internal tag stack during HTML processing. The default value is False. """ self._printsStack = flag ## Command line ## def main(self, args=None): """The command line equivalent of readFileNamed(). Invoked when HTMLTag is run as a program. """ if args is None: args = sys.argv if len(args) < 2: self.usage() return self.readFileNamed(args[1]) def usage(self): print 'HTMLTag: usage: HTMLTag ' sys.exit(1) ## SGMLParser handlers ## def handle_data(self, data): if self._finished: return assert isinstance(data, basestring) if self._ignoreWS: data = data.strip() if not data: return if self._tagStack: self._tagStack[-1].addChild(data) else: print '<> data=%r' % repr(data) def handle_pi(self, data): raise HTMLTagProcessingInstructionError( 'Was not expecting a processing instruction: %r' % data) def unknown_starttag(self, name, attrs): if self._finished: return tag = HTMLTag(name, lineNumber=self._lineNumber) for attrName, value in attrs: tag.readAttr(attrName, value) if name in self._emptyTagSet: # We'll never have any children. Boo hoo. assert self._rootTag, 'Cannot start HTML with an empty tag: %r' % tag self._tagStack[-1].addChild(tag) empty = True else: # We could have children, so we go on the stack # Also, if this is the first tag, then make it the root. # If it's the first tag and it isn't an tag, # create a fake "container" html tag. if self._tagStack: lastTag = self._tagStack[-1] # is this legal? tagConfig = self._tagContainmentConfig.get(lastTag.name()) if tagConfig: tagConfig.encounteredTag(name, self._lineNumber) # tell last tag about his new child lastTag.addChild(tag) elif name != 'html' and self._fakeRootTagIfNeeded: self._rootTag = HTMLTag('html') self._tagStack.append(self._rootTag) self._tagStack[-1].addChild(tag) self._usedFakeRootTag = True else: self._rootTag = tag self._tagStack.append(tag) empty = False if self._printsStack: prefix = ('START', '-----')[empty] print '%s %s: %r' % (prefix, name.ljust(6), self._tagStack) def unknown_endtag(self, name): if self._finished: return if name == self._endingTag: self._finished = True openingTag = self._tagStack.pop() if self._printsStack: print 'END %s: %r' % (name.ljust(6), self._tagStack) if openingTag.name() != name: raise HTMLTagUnbalancedError( 'line %i: opening is %r, but closing is <%s>.' % (self._lineNumber, openingTag, name), line=self._lineNumber, opening=openingTag.name(), closing=name, tagStack=self._tagStack) else: openingTag.closedBy(name, self._lineNumber) def close(self): if len(self._tagStack) > 0 and not ( len(self._tagStack) == 1 and self._usedFakeRootTag): raise HTMLTagIncompleteError( 'line %i: tagStack = %r' % (self._lineNumber, self._tagStack), line=self._lineNumber, tagStack=repr(self._tagStack)) SGMLParser.close(self) ## Self utility ## def _updateEmptyTagSet(self): """Create a set out of the empty tag list for quick look up.""" self._emptyTagSet = set(self._emptyTagList) # The following dict defines for various tags either: # + the complete set of tags that can be contained within # - a set of tags that cannot be contained within # This information helps HTMLReader detect some types of errors # earlier and other types of errors, it would never detect. tagContainmentConfig = { 'html': 'canOnlyHave head body', 'head': 'cannotHave html head body', 'body': 'cannotHave html head body', 'table': 'canOnlyHave tr thead tbody tfoot a', # a because in IE you can wrap a row in to make the entire row clickable 'tr': 'canOnlyHave th td', 'td': 'cannotHave td tr', 'select': 'canOnlyHave option', } def computeTagContainmentConfig(self): config = {} for key, value in self.tagContainmentConfig.items(): if isinstance(value, basestring): value = value.split() configClass = configClassForName.get(value.pop(0)) if configClass is None: raise KeyError('Unknown config name %r for value %r' ' in %s.tagContainmentConfig' % (key, value, self.__class__.__name__)) config[key] = configClass(key, value) else: assert isinstance(value, TagConfig), 'key=%r, value=%r' % (key, value) config[key] = value self._tagContainmentConfig = config ## Optimizations ## if runFast: finish_starttag = unknown_starttag finish_endtag = unknown_endtag class TagConfig(object): def __init__(self, name, tags): self.name = name # turn tag list into a set for fast lookup (avoid linear searches) self.tags = set(tags) def encounteredTag(self, tag, lineNum): raise AbstractError(self.__class__) class TagCanOnlyHaveConfig(TagConfig): def encounteredTag(self, tag, lineNum): if tag.lower() not in self.tags: raise HTMLNotAllowedError('line %i: the tag %r' ' is not allowed in %r which can only have %r.' % (lineNum, tag, self.name, sorted(self.tags)), line=lineNum, encounteredTag=tag, containingTag=self.name, canOnlyHave=self.tags) class TagCannotHaveConfig(TagConfig): def encounteredTag(self, tag, lineNum): if tag.lower() in self.tags: raise HTMLNotAllowedError('line %i: The tag %r' ' is not allowed in %r which cannot have %r.' % (lineNum, tag, self.name, sorted(self.tags)), line=lineNum, enounteredTag=tag, containingTag=self.name, cannotHave=self.tags) configClassForName = dict( canOnlyHave=TagCanOnlyHaveConfig, cannotHave=TagCannotHaveConfig) if __name__ == '__main__': html = HTMLReader().main() html.pprint()