openid.consumer.html

Module html_parse

There must be an open <html> tag

There must be an open <head> tag inside of the <html> tag

Only <link>s that are found inside of the <head> tag are parsed (this is by design)

The parser follows the OpenID specification in resolving the attributes of the link tags. This means that the attributes DO NOT get resolved as they would by an XML or HTML parser. In particular, only certain entities get replaced, and href attributes do not get resolved relative to a base URL.

The openid.server URL MUST be an absolute URL. OpenID consumers MUST NOT attempt to resolve relative URLs.

The openid.server URL MUST NOT include entities other than &, <, >, and ".

The parser ignores SGML comments and <![CDATA[blocks]]>. Both kinds of quoting are allowed for attributes.

Tag names are not case-sensitive

The <html> tag is accepted even when it is not at the top level

The <head> tag is accepted even when it is not a direct child of the <html> tag, but a <html> tag must be an ancestor of the <head> tag

If there is no closing tag for an open <html> or <head> tag, the remainder of the document is viewed as being inside of the tag. If there is no closing tag for a <link> tag, the link tag is treated as a short tag. Exceptions to this rule are that <html> closes <html> and <body> or <head> closes <head>

Attributes of the <link> tag are not required to be quoted.

In the case of duplicated attribute names, the attribute coming last in the tag will be the value returned.

Any text that does not parse as an attribute within a link tag will be ignored. (e.g. <link pumpkin rel='openid.server' /> will ignore pumpkin)

If there are more than one <html> or <head> tag, the parser only looks inside of the first one.

The contents of <script> tags are ignored entirely, except unclosed <script> tags. Unclosed <script> tags are ignored.

Any other invalid markup is ignored, including unclosed SGML comments and unclosed <![CDATA[blocks.

Functions

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[[(type(html), type(html))]]

parseLinkAttrs(html)
Find all link tags in a string representing a HTML document and return a list of their attributes.

Function Details

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parseLinkAttrs(html)

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Find all link tags in a string representing a HTML document and return a list of their attributes.

Parameters:

html (str or unicode) - the text to parse

Returns: [[(type(html), type(html))]]: A list of dictionaries of attributes, one for each link tag