[lxml-dev] About the position of html parsing by HTML Target parser

[qhlonline]

2009-07-20，"Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml at behnel.de> ：
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>qhlonline wrote:
>> 2009-07-17，"Stefan Behnel" wrote：
>>> That said, I still do not understand why you need the character stream
>>> position for parsing. Could you elaborate on that?
>>
>> Well, the position information is usefull. Some outside source of HTML
>> document is declared in a seperate file, like <style> 'css' file. We may
>> get the HTML document and its related source on net concurrently. But
>> the outside source should be inserted in the proper position of HTML
>> document in out application after parse. so the related tag position is
>> usefull now.
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>I still don't understand what you need the stream position for. If you want
>to inject data into the tree, just find the right element and do so.
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>Or did you mean that you are actually doing a /textual/ replacement here?
Yes, I think if we use the ordinary parsing mode, things may be easy. But my leader has used the target parser of lxml. It generate no DOM tree at all, so I can't inject data to a constructed tree directly. 
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>Stefan
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