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<p>I have been trying to get BeautifulSoup (3.1.0.1)to parse a html page that has a lot of javascript that generates html inside tags. One example fragment looks like this :</p> <pre><code><html><head><body><div> <script type='text/javascript'> if(ii > 0) { html += '<span id="hoverMenuPosSepId" class="hoverMenuPosSep">|</span>' } html += '<div class="hoverMenuPos" id="hoverMenuPosId" onMouseOver=\"menuOver_3821();\" ' + 'onMouseOut=\"menuOut_3821();\">'; if (children[ii].uri == location.pathname) { html += '<a class="hiHover" href="' + children[ii].uri + '" ' + onClick + '>'; } else { html += '<a class="hover" href="' + children[ii].uri + '" ' + onClick + '>'; } html += children[ii].name + '</a></div>'; } } hp = document.getElementById("hoverpopup_3821"); hp.style.top = (parseInt(hoveritem.offsetTop) + parseInt(hoveritem.offsetHeight)) + "px"; hp.style.visibility = "Visible"; hp.innerHTML = html; } return false; } function menuOut_3821() { timeOn_3821 = setTimeout("showSelected_3821()", 1000) } var timeOn_3821 = null; function menuOver_3821() { clearTimeout(timeOn_3821) } function showSelected_3821() { showChildrenMenu_3821( document.getElementById("flatMenuItemAnchor" + selectedPageId), selectedPageId); } </script> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>BeautifulSoup doesn't seem to be able to deal with this and is complaning about "malformed start tag" around the onMouseOver=**\"**menuOver_3821();\". It seems to try parsing the xml that is generated by javascript inside the script block ?!?</p> <p>Any ideas how to make BeautifulSoup ignores the script tags content ?</p> <p>I have seen other suggestion of using lxml but can't since it has to run on Google AppEngine.</p>
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Making BeautifulSoup ignore contents inside script tags
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1. COPerhaps you are experiencing this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516824
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2. COThanks for the pointer! Reverting to BeautifulSoup 3.0.7a solved the problem and it was able to deal with other dodgy html bits that 3.1.0.1 choked on.
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