# html.py - parser functions for html content # # Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Arthur de Jong # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA # # The files produced as output from the software do not automatically fall # under the copyright of the software, unless explicitly stated otherwise. """Parser functions for processing HTML content. This a front-end module that tries to load the BeatifulSoup parser first and falls back to loading the legacy HTMLParser parser.""" import debugio import re import htmlentitydefs # the list of mimetypes this module should be able to handle mimetypes = ('text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml', 'text/x-server-parsed-html') # pattern for matching all html entities _entitypattern = re.compile('&(#[0-9]{1,6}|[a-zA-Z]{2,10});') def htmlescape(txt, inattr=False): """HTML escape the given string and return an ASCII clean string with known entities and character entities for the other values. If the inattr parameter is set quotes and newlines will also be escaped.""" # check for empty string if not txt: return u'' # convert to unicode object if not isinstance(txt, unicode): txt = unicode(txt, errors='replace') # the output string out = '' # loop over the characters of the string for c in txt: if c == '"': if inattr: out += '&%s;' % htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord(c)] else: out += '"' elif htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name.has_key(ord(c)): out += '&%s;' % htmlentitydefs.codepoint2name[ord(c)] elif ord(c) > 126: out += '&#%d;'% ord(c) elif inattr and c == u'\n': out += ' ' else: out += c.encode('utf-8') return out def _unescape_entity(match): """Helper function for htmlunescape(). This funcion unescapes a html entity, it is passed to the sub() function.""" if htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint.has_key(match.group(1)): # we have a named entity, return proper character return unichr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[match.group(1)]) elif match.group(1)[0] == '#': # we have a numeric entity, replace with proper character return unichr(int(match.group(1)[1:])) else: # we have something else, just keep the original return match.group(0) def htmlunescape(txt): """This function unescapes a html encoded string. This function returns a unicode string.""" # check for empty string if not txt: return u'' # convert to unicode if not isinstance(txt, unicode): txt = unicode(txt, errors='replace') # replace &name; and &#nn; refs with proper characters txt = _entitypattern.sub(_unescape_entity, txt) # we're done return txt def parse(content, link): """Parse the specified content and extract an url list, a list of images a title and an author. The content is assumed to contain HMTL.""" try: # try BeautifulSoup parser first import parsers.html.beautifulsoup debugio.debug('parsers.html.parse(): the BeautifulSoup parser is ok') parsers.html.parse = parsers.html.beautifulsoup.parse except ImportError: # fall back to legacy HTMLParser parser debugio.warn('falling back to the legacy HTML parser, consider installing BeautifulSoup') import parsers.html.htmlparser parsers.html.parse = parsers.html.htmlparser.parse # call the actual parse function parse(content, link)