BAZOMBO: a discursive miscellany of topics

Elements or attributes, the eternal question

Sunday, May 10 2009

Nice take on when to use attributes in XML here.

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Tags: xml ~ linky

Shelly Powers: the Parable of the Languages

Thursday, October 11 2007

I love the ending.

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Tags: programming ~ xml ~ linky ~ funny

HTMLTidy for Python

Friday, September 28 2007

When importing all my old content, I hit a snag. A lot of vital.org.nz has pretty broken markup in it. Burble’s templating system is strict XML under the hood, so any post or comment that contains broken markup causes burble to barf.

I discovered that there is a lovely Python wrapper for HTML Tidy. And there’s even an Ubuntu package. Problem solved.

>>> import tidy
>>> html = 'some <b>horrible<i> soup</b> which is nasty & yukky'
>>> options = {'show-body-only':'y', 'output-xhtml':'y', 'enclose-block-text':'y', 'enclose-text':'y'}
>>> body = str(tidy.parseString(html, **options))
>>> body
'<p>some <b>horrible <i>soup</i> which is nasty &amp; yukky</b></p>\n\n'


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Tags: burble ~ python ~ html tidy ~ xml

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