A demo that reads in an RSS XML document and emits an HTML file containing
a list of the individual items in the feed.
from xml.sax import make_parser, handler
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Converted to HTML by rss2html.py.
class RSSHandler(handler.ContentHandler):
def __init__(self, out=sys.stdout):
handler.ContentHandler.__init__(self)
self._out = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(out)
self._list_started = False
def startElement(self, name, attrs):
if name == "channel" or name == "image" or name == "item":
def endElement(self, name):
if self._parent == "channel":
self._out.write(top % (self._text, self._text))
elif name == "description":
self._out.write("<p>%s</p>\n" % self._text)
elif self._parent == "item":
elif name == "description":
if not self._list_started:
self._out.write("<ul>\n")
self._list_started = True
self._out.write(' <li><a href="%s">%s</a> %s\n' %
(self._link, self._title, self._descr))
def characters(self, content):
self._text = self._text + content
if __name__ == '__main__':
parser.setContentHandler(RSSHandler())
parser.parse(sys.argv[1])