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1 """A parser for HTML and XHTML."""
3 # This file is based on sgmllib.py, but the API is slightly different.
5 # XXX There should be a way to distinguish between PCDATA (parsed
6 # character data -- the normal case), RCDATA (replaceable character
7 # data -- only char and entity references and end tags are special)
8 # and CDATA (character data -- only end tags are special).
11 import markupbase
12 import re
14 # Regular expressions used for parsing
16 interesting_normal = re.compile('[&<]')
17 interesting_cdata = re.compile(r'<(/|\Z)')
18 incomplete = re.compile('&[a-zA-Z#]')
20 entityref = re.compile('&([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*)[^a-zA-Z0-9]')
21 charref = re.compile('&#(?:[0-9]+|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+)[^0-9a-fA-F]')
23 starttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z]')
24 piclose = re.compile('>')
25 commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
26 tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*')
27 attrfind = re.compile(
28 r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-.:a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
29 r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~]*))?')
31 locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""
32 <[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]* # tag name
33 (?:\s+ # whitespace before attribute name
34 (?:[a-zA-Z_][-.:a-zA-Z0-9_]* # attribute name
35 (?:\s*=\s* # value indicator
36 (?:'[^']*' # LITA-enclosed value
37 |\"[^\"]*\" # LIT-enclosed value
38 |[^'\">\s]+ # bare value
43 \s* # trailing whitespace
44 """, re.VERBOSE)
45 endendtag = re.compile('>')
46 endtagfind = re.compile('</\s*([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*)\s*>')
49 class HTMLParseError(Exception):
50 """Exception raised for all parse errors."""
52 def __init__(self, msg, position=(None, None)):
53 assert msg
54 self.msg = msg
55 self.lineno = position[0]
56 self.offset = position[1]
58 def __str__(self):
59 result = self.msg
60 if self.lineno is not None:
61 result = result + ", at line %d" % self.lineno
62 if self.offset is not None:
63 result = result + ", column %d" % (self.offset + 1)
64 return result
67 class HTMLParser(markupbase.ParserBase):
68 """Find tags and other markup and call handler functions.
70 Usage:
71 p = HTMLParser()
72 p.feed(data)
73 ...
74 p.close()
76 Start tags are handled by calling self.handle_starttag() or
77 self.handle_startendtag(); end tags by self.handle_endtag(). The
78 data between tags is passed from the parser to the derived class
79 by calling self.handle_data() with the data as argument (the data
80 may be split up in arbitrary chunks). Entity references are
81 passed by calling self.handle_entityref() with the entity
82 reference as the argument. Numeric character references are
83 passed to self.handle_charref() with the string containing the
84 reference as the argument.
85 """
87 CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS = ("script", "style")
90 def __init__(self):
91 """Initialize and reset this instance."""
92 self.reset()
94 def reset(self):
95 """Reset this instance. Loses all unprocessed data."""
96 self.rawdata = ''
97 self.lasttag = '???'
98 self.interesting = interesting_normal
99 markupbase.ParserBase.reset(self)
101 def feed(self, data):
102 """Feed data to the parser.
104 Call this as often as you want, with as little or as much text
105 as you want (may include '\n').
107 self.rawdata = self.rawdata + data
108 self.goahead(0)
110 def close(self):
111 """Handle any buffered data."""
112 self.goahead(1)
114 def error(self, message):
115 raise HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
117 __starttag_text = None
119 def get_starttag_text(self):
120 """Return full source of start tag: '<...>'."""
121 return self.__starttag_text
123 def set_cdata_mode(self):
124 self.interesting = interesting_cdata
126 def clear_cdata_mode(self):
127 self.interesting = interesting_normal
129 # Internal -- handle data as far as reasonable. May leave state
130 # and data to be processed by a subsequent call. If 'end' is
131 # true, force handling all data as if followed by EOF marker.
132 def goahead(self, end):
133 rawdata = self.rawdata
134 i = 0
135 n = len(rawdata)
136 while i < n:
137 match = self.interesting.search(rawdata, i) # < or &
138 if match:
139 j = match.start()
140 else:
141 j = n
142 if i < j: self.handle_data(rawdata[i:j])
143 i = self.updatepos(i, j)
144 if i == n: break
145 startswith = rawdata.startswith
146 if startswith('<', i):
147 if starttagopen.match(rawdata, i): # < + letter
148 k = self.parse_starttag(i)
149 elif startswith("</", i):
150 k = self.parse_endtag(i)
151 if k >= 0:
152 self.clear_cdata_mode()
153 elif startswith("<!--", i):
154 k = self.parse_comment(i)
155 elif startswith("<?", i):
156 k = self.parse_pi(i)
157 elif startswith("<!", i):
158 k = self.parse_declaration(i)
159 elif (i + 1) < n:
160 self.handle_data("<")
161 k = i + 1
162 else:
163 break
164 if k < 0:
165 if end:
166 self.error("EOF in middle of construct")
167 break
168 i = self.updatepos(i, k)
169 elif startswith("&#", i):
170 match = charref.match(rawdata, i)
171 if match:
172 name = match.group()[2:-1]
173 self.handle_charref(name)
174 k = match.end()
175 if not startswith(';', k-1):
176 k = k - 1
177 i = self.updatepos(i, k)
178 continue
179 else:
180 break
181 elif startswith('&', i):
182 match = entityref.match(rawdata, i)
183 if match:
184 name = match.group(1)
185 self.handle_entityref(name)
186 k = match.end()
187 if not startswith(';', k-1):
188 k = k - 1
189 i = self.updatepos(i, k)
190 continue
191 match = incomplete.match(rawdata, i)
192 if match:
193 # match.group() will contain at least 2 chars
194 if end and match.group() == rawdata[i:]:
195 self.error("EOF in middle of entity or char ref")
196 # incomplete
197 break
198 elif (i + 1) < n:
199 # not the end of the buffer, and can't be confused
200 # with some other construct
201 self.handle_data("&")
202 i = self.updatepos(i, i + 1)
203 else:
204 break
205 else:
206 assert 0, "interesting.search() lied"
207 # end while
208 if end and i < n:
209 self.handle_data(rawdata[i:n])
210 i = self.updatepos(i, n)
211 self.rawdata = rawdata[i:]
213 # Internal -- parse comment, return end or -1 if not terminated
214 def parse_comment(self, i, report=1):
215 rawdata = self.rawdata
216 assert rawdata[i:i+4] == '<!--', 'unexpected call to parse_comment()'
217 match = commentclose.search(rawdata, i+4)
218 if not match:
219 return -1
220 if report:
221 j = match.start()
222 self.handle_comment(rawdata[i+4: j])
223 j = match.end()
224 return j
226 # Internal -- parse processing instr, return end or -1 if not terminated
227 def parse_pi(self, i):
228 rawdata = self.rawdata
229 assert rawdata[i:i+2] == '<?', 'unexpected call to parse_pi()'
230 match = piclose.search(rawdata, i+2) # >
231 if not match:
232 return -1
233 j = match.start()
234 self.handle_pi(rawdata[i+2: j])
235 j = match.end()
236 return j
238 # Internal -- handle starttag, return end or -1 if not terminated
239 def parse_starttag(self, i):
240 self.__starttag_text = None
241 endpos = self.check_for_whole_start_tag(i)
242 if endpos < 0:
243 return endpos
244 rawdata = self.rawdata
245 self.__starttag_text = rawdata[i:endpos]
247 # Now parse the data between i+1 and j into a tag and attrs
248 attrs = []
249 match = tagfind.match(rawdata, i+1)
250 assert match, 'unexpected call to parse_starttag()'
251 k = match.end()
252 self.lasttag = tag = rawdata[i+1:k].lower()
254 while k < endpos:
255 m = attrfind.match(rawdata, k)
256 if not m:
257 break
258 attrname, rest, attrvalue = m.group(1, 2, 3)
259 if not rest:
260 attrvalue = None
261 elif attrvalue[:1] == '\'' == attrvalue[-1:] or \
262 attrvalue[:1] == '"' == attrvalue[-1:]:
263 attrvalue = attrvalue[1:-1]
264 attrvalue = self.unescape(attrvalue)
265 attrs.append((attrname.lower(), attrvalue))
266 k = m.end()
268 end = rawdata[k:endpos].strip()
269 if end not in (">", "/>"):
270 lineno, offset = self.getpos()
271 if "\n" in self.__starttag_text:
272 lineno = lineno + self.__starttag_text.count("\n")
273 offset = len(self.__starttag_text) \
274 - self.__starttag_text.rfind("\n")
275 else:
276 offset = offset + len(self.__starttag_text)
277 self.error("junk characters in start tag: %s"
278 % `rawdata[k:endpos][:20]`)
279 if end.endswith('/>'):
280 # XHTML-style empty tag: <span attr="value" />
281 self.handle_startendtag(tag, attrs)
282 else:
283 self.handle_starttag(tag, attrs)
284 if tag in self.CDATA_CONTENT_ELEMENTS:
285 self.set_cdata_mode()
286 return endpos
288 # Internal -- check to see if we have a complete starttag; return end
289 # or -1 if incomplete.
290 def check_for_whole_start_tag(self, i):
291 rawdata = self.rawdata
292 m = locatestarttagend.match(rawdata, i)
293 if m:
294 j = m.end()
295 next = rawdata[j:j+1]
296 if next == ">":
297 return j + 1
298 if next == "/":
299 if rawdata.startswith("/>", j):
300 return j + 2
301 if rawdata.startswith("/", j):
302 # buffer boundary
303 return -1
304 # else bogus input
305 self.updatepos(i, j + 1)
306 self.error("malformed empty start tag")
307 if next == "":
308 # end of input
309 return -1
310 if next in ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz=/"
311 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"):
312 # end of input in or before attribute value, or we have the
313 # '/' from a '/>' ending
314 return -1
315 self.updatepos(i, j)
316 self.error("malformed start tag")
317 raise AssertionError("we should not get here!")
319 # Internal -- parse endtag, return end or -1 if incomplete
320 def parse_endtag(self, i):
321 rawdata = self.rawdata
322 assert rawdata[i:i+2] == "</", "unexpected call to parse_endtag"
323 match = endendtag.search(rawdata, i+1) # >
324 if not match:
325 return -1
326 j = match.end()
327 match = endtagfind.match(rawdata, i) # </ + tag + >
328 if not match:
329 self.error("bad end tag: %s" % `rawdata[i:j]`)
330 tag = match.group(1)
331 self.handle_endtag(tag.lower())
332 return j
334 # Overridable -- finish processing of start+end tag: <tag.../>
335 def handle_startendtag(self, tag, attrs):
336 self.handle_starttag(tag, attrs)
337 self.handle_endtag(tag)
339 # Overridable -- handle start tag
340 def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
341 pass
343 # Overridable -- handle end tag
344 def handle_endtag(self, tag):
345 pass
347 # Overridable -- handle character reference
348 def handle_charref(self, name):
349 pass
351 # Overridable -- handle entity reference
352 def handle_entityref(self, name):
353 pass
355 # Overridable -- handle data
356 def handle_data(self, data):
357 pass
359 # Overridable -- handle comment
360 def handle_comment(self, data):
361 pass
363 # Overridable -- handle declaration
364 def handle_decl(self, decl):
365 pass
367 # Overridable -- handle processing instruction
368 def handle_pi(self, data):
369 pass
371 def unknown_decl(self, data):
372 self.error("unknown declaration: " + `data`)
374 # Internal -- helper to remove special character quoting
375 def unescape(self, s):
376 if '&' not in s:
377 return s
378 s = s.replace("&lt;", "<")
379 s = s.replace("&gt;", ">")
380 s = s.replace("&apos;", "'")
381 s = s.replace("&quot;", '"')
382 s = s.replace("&amp;", "&") # Must be last
383 return s