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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 15c86b9..a233e89 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ Comments and other special strings ``Tag``, ``NavigableString``, and ``BeautifulSoup`` cover almost everything you'll see in an HTML or XML file, but there are a few -leftover bits. The only one you'll probably ever need to worry about +leftover bits. The main one you'll probably encounter is the comment:: markup = "<b><!--Hey, buddy. Want to buy a used parser?--></b>" @@ -562,9 +562,19 @@ displayed with special formatting:: # <!--Hey, buddy. Want to buy a used parser?--> # </b> +Beautiful Soup also defines classes called ``Stylesheet``, ``Script``, +and ``TemplateString``, for embedded CSS stylesheets (any strings +found inside a ``<style>`` tag), embedded Javascript (any strings +found in a ``<script>`` tag), and HTML templates (any strings inside a +``<template>`` tag). These classes work exactly the same way as +``NavigableString``; their only purpose is to make it easier to pick +out the main body of the page, by ignoring strings that represent +something else. (These classes are new in Beautiful Soup 4.9.0, and +the html5lib parser doesn't use them.) + Beautiful Soup defines classes for anything else that might show up in an XML document: ``CData``, ``ProcessingInstruction``, -``Declaration``, and ``Doctype``. Just like ``Comment``, these classes +``Declaration``, and ``Doctype``. Like ``Comment``, these classes are subclasses of ``NavigableString`` that add something extra to the string. Here's an example that replaces the comment with a CDATA block:: @@ -577,7 +587,7 @@ block:: # <b> # <![CDATA[A CDATA block]]> # </b> - + Navigating the tree =================== |