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[ElementTree] Insert big block of HTML? - Winfried - May-12-2022
Hello,
I have only shallow experience with XML parsers — although I'm currently dealing with HTML.
Unless I missed it, neither lxml nor ElementTree provides a function to insert a big block of HTML at a location in the tree. Before I use a regex instead of those XML parsers… do you confirm?
Thank you.
Here's what it could look like:
import lxml.etree as et
from lxml import html
from io import StringIO
with open("input.html") as reader:
content = reader.read()
parser = et.HTMLParser(encoding='latin1',remove_blank_text=True,recover=True)
tree = et.parse(StringIO(content), parser)
root = tree.getroot()
body = root.find("body")
with open("block.html") as reader:
big_block = reader.read()
#HERE
body.insert_after(big_block)