[lxml-dev] ElementSoup doesn't work as in doc/elementsoup.txt

Fri Sep 28 11:52:45 CEST 2007

Hello.

I'm learning ElementSoup,  but it doesn't  work the way  it's supposed to be.
I tried sample  code in doc/elementsoup.txt  but  failed with  error.
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>>> tag_soup = '<meta><head><title>Hello</head<body onload=crash()>Hi all<p>'
>>> from lxml.html.ElementSoup import parse
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> root = parse(StringIO(tag_soup))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lxml-2.0alpha3-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/lxml/html/ElementSoup.py",
line 19, in parse
    root = _convert_tree(tree, makeelement)
  File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lxml-2.0alpha3-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg/lxml/html/ElementSoup.py",
line 40, in _convert_tree
    attrib=dict(beautiful_soup_tree.attrs))
  File "parser.pxi", line 702, in etree._BaseParser.makeelement
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 102, in etree._makeElement
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 798, in etree._tagValidOrRaise
ValueError: Invalid tag name u'[document]'
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I'm using
Python2.5
lxml-2.0alpha3
BeautifulSoup 3.0.4

Any clues?