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cssselect2_html_parsing_and_css_selector_text_extraction.py

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This example demonstrates how to parse an HTML document into a tree and use a

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cssselect2_html_parsing_and_css_selector_text_extraction.py
1from html5lib import HTMLParser
2from cssselect2 import ElementWrapper
3
4# 1. Parse an HTML document into a tree
5html_content = '<html><body><div id="content">Hello, <b>world</b>!</div></body></html>'
6tree = HTMLParser(namespaceHTMLElements=False).parse(html_content)
7
8# 2. Wrap the tree with ElementWrapper
9wrapper = ElementWrapper.from_html_tree(tree)
10
11# 3. Use a CSS selector to find elements
12# This finds the <b> tag inside the div with id="content"
13matches = wrapper.query_all('#content b')
14
15# 4. Print the text content of the matches
16for element in matches:
17    print(element.etree_element.text)