[lxml-dev] lxml.html.ElementSoup

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Ian Bicking wrote:
> I believe lxml.html.ElementSoup.parse doesn't have the same API as other 
> parse functions -- it returns an element, where the other parse 
> functions return trees.
> 
> Also, should ElementSoup have a lower case name?  (Maybe renaming it 
> would make deprecating this parse behavior easier too)

I agree that it's not consistent, but it's how ET does it:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm

Stefan