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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 625a6f5..e2620dd 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ BS3, so it's still available, but if you're writing new code you should install ``beautifulsoup4``.) You can also `download the Beautiful Soup 4 source tarball -<http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/beautifulsoup4.tar.gz>`_ +<http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/4.x/beautifulsoup4-4.0.0b3.tar.gz>`_ and install it with ``setup.py``. The license for Beautiful Soup allows you to package the entire library with your application, so you can also download the tarball and insert the ``bs4`` directory into @@ -1588,7 +1588,8 @@ and replaces it with the tag or string of your choice:: a_tag # <a href="http://example.com/">I linked to <b>example.net</b></a> -The removed tag or string is gone forever. +``replace_with()`` returns the tag or string that was replaced, so +that you can examine it or add it back to another part of the tree. ``replace_with_children()`` --------------------------- @@ -1604,6 +1605,8 @@ that tag. It's good for stripping out markup:: a_tag # <a href="http://example.com/">I linked to example.com</a> +Like ``replace_with()``, ``replace_with_children()`` returns the tag +that was replaced. Output ====== @@ -2198,7 +2201,7 @@ I renamed one attribute to use more accurate terminology: * ``Tag.isSelfClosing`` -> ``Tag.is_empty_element`` I renamed three attributes to avoid using words that have special -meaning to Python. Unlike the others, these changs are *not backwards +meaning to Python. Unlike the others, these changes are *not backwards compatible.* If you used these attributes in BS3, your code will break on BS4 until you change them. |