Table of Contents

• References
• Parse HTML
• Write HTML
• Convert HtmlElement to str and vice versa

References

Guide

https://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html

HtmlElement specific

https://lxml.de/api/lxml.html.HtmlMixin-class.html

Parse HTML howto

• Use lxml.html.parse
• Note that parse() returns an ElementTree object, not an Element object as the string parser functions.

from lxml import html
html.parse(str(path)).getroot()

Write HTML howto

• write() exists in ElementTree object.
• Use method=html

etree = doc.getroottree()
etree.write(str(dst), method='html', encoding='utf-8')

Convert HtmlElement to str and vice versa howto

def s2e(s):
    return html.fragment_fromstring(s)

def e2s(e):
    return html.tostring(e, encoding='unicode')