[lxml-dev] Efficient methods to build a tree out of HTML structure?

Dennis Benzinger Dennis.Benzinger at gmx.net
Fri May 16 12:28:42 CEST 2008


Am 16.05.2008 11:56, Stefan Behnel schrieb:
> 
> Viksit Gaur wrote:
>> The problem I face was a method to assign a unique ID to each
>> element on the page.
>> 
>> Lets say I construct an iterwalk object. But, during this phase, I would
>> like to not only build the tree, but also add some of my own information
>> to each node (such as a unique ID to each element).
> 
> I still don't understand what you mean with "build the tree". You can't
> construct a tree and run iterwalk at the same time. iterparse() will do that
> in case you are parsing.
> [...]

I think he is talking about his own tree. The tree he is building to
visualize the structure of the XML data.

HTH,
Dennis Benzinger


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