selfClosingTags in BeautifulSoup

Question

Using BeautifulSoup to parse my XML

import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulStoneSoup( \"\"\"hello         


        

Answer 1

I don't have a "why", but this might be of interest to you. If you use BeautifulSoup (no Stone) to parse XML with a self-closing tag, it works. Sort of:

>>> soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup( """hello""" ) # selfClosingTags=['alan'])
>>> print soup.prettify()



 hello

The nesting is right, even if alan is rendered as a start and an end tag.