<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>lxml.html.ElementSoup</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="epydoc.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="epydoc.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="#204080" alink="#204080"> <!-- ==================== NAVIGATION BAR ==================== --> <table class="navbar" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#a0c0ff" cellspacing="0"> <tr valign="middle"> <!-- Home link --> <th> <a href="lxml-module.html">Home</a> </th> <!-- Tree link --> <th> <a href="module-tree.html">Trees</a> </th> <!-- Index link --> <th> <a href="identifier-index.html">Indices</a> </th> <!-- Help link --> <th> <a href="help.html">Help</a> </th> <!-- Project homepage --> <th class="navbar" align="right" width="100%"> <table border="0" 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parser. <!-- ==================== FUNCTIONS ==================== --> <a name="section-Functions"></a> <table class="summary" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="white"> <tr bgcolor="#70b0f0" class="table-header"> <td align="left" colspan="2" class="table-header"> <span class="table-header">Functions</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary"> <span class="summary-type"> </span> </td><td class="summary"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="lxml.html.ElementSoup-module.html#convert_tree" class="summary-sig-name">convert_tree</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">beautiful_soup_tree</span>, <span class="summary-sig-arg">makeelement</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>)</span><br /> Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.</td> <td align="right" valign="top"> <span class="codelink"><a href="lxml.html.soupparser-pysrc.html#convert_tree">source code</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15%" align="right" valign="top" class="summary"> <span class="summary-type"> </span> </td><td class="summary"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td><span class="summary-sig"><a name="parse"></a><span class="summary-sig-name">parse</span>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">file</span>, <span class="summary-sig-arg">beautifulsoup</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>, <span class="summary-sig-arg">makeelement</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>)</span></td> <td align="right" valign="top"> <span class="codelink"><a href="lxml.html.ElementSoup-pysrc.html#parse">source code</a></span> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- ==================== FUNCTION DETAILS ==================== --> <a name="section-FunctionDetails"></a> <table class="details" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" 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