This question is specific to BeautifulSoup4, which makes it different from the previous questions:
Why is BeautifulSoup modifying my self-closing elements?
selfClosingTags in BeautifulSoup
Since BeautifulStoneSoup is gone (the previous xml parser), how can I get bs4 to respect a new self-closing tag? For example:
import bs4
S = '''<foo> <bar a="3"/> </foo>'''
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(S, selfClosingTags=['bar'])
print soup.prettify()
Does not self-close the bar tag, but gives a hint. What is this tree builder that bs4 is referring to and how to I self-close the tag?
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bs4/__init__.py:112: UserWarning: BS4 does not respect the selfClosingTags argument to the BeautifulSoup constructor. The tree builder is responsible for understanding self-closing tags.
"BS4 does not respect the selfClosingTags argument to the "
<html>
<body>
<foo>
<bar a="3">
</bar>
</foo>
</body>
</html>
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