[Zope] htmllib question

Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:12:40 -0800

Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Sam Gendler wrote:
> > I thought I had a pretty clean solution for extracting all the contents
> > between the <body> </body> tags of an uploaded html file, using the
> > htmllib.  Basically, in start_body, I call save_bgn(), and in end_body,
> > I call save_end(), which was supposed to save all the contents between
> > the two tags.  Unfortunately, it saves only the content that isn't in
> > html tags.  All the subsequent tags get dropped.  Does anyone know an
> > easy way around this?  The only method that I see is to overload the
> > unknown tag functions to pu tthe tags back into a buffer, which is
> > WAY more effort than it is worth.
>
>    Look into Zope-2.1.0b2, directoru utils, file load_site.py. There is my
> patch there that does exactly this using SGMLLib.
>
> Oleg.
> ----
>     Oleg Broytmann      Foundation for Effective Policies      phd@phd.russ.ru
>            Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

Great.  Now you tell me ;-)  I guess I will know next time.  Thanks for the tip

--sam