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+from lxml import etree
+from beautifulsoup.element import Comment, Doctype
+from beautifulsoup.builder import HTMLTreeBuilder
+
+class LXMLTreeBuilder(HTMLTreeBuilder):
+
+    def __init__(self, parser_class=etree.HTMLParser):
+        self.parser = parser_class(target=self)
+        self.soup = None
+
+    def feed(self, markup):
+        self.parser.feed(markup)
+        self.parser.close()
+
+    def close(self):
+        pass
+
+    def start(self, name, attrs):
+        self.soup.handle_starttag(name, attrs)
+
+    def end(self, name):
+        self.soup.handle_endtag(name)
+
+    def data(self, content):
+        self.soup.handle_data(content)
+
+    def doctype(self, name, pubid, system):
+        self.soup.endData()
+        self.soup.handle_data(name)
+        self.soup.endData(Doctype)
+
+    def comment(self, content):
+        "Handle comments as Comment objects."
+        self.soup.endData()
+        self.soup.handle_data(content)
+        self.soup.endData(Comment)
+
+    def test_fragment_to_document(self, fragment):
+        """See `TreeBuilder`."""
+        return u'<html><body>%s</body></html>' % fragment
+