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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 56aa7fe..0d13e0a 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -402,13 +402,13 @@ one CSS class). Others include ``rel``, ``rev``, ``accept-charset``, ``headers``, and ``accesskey``. Beautiful Soup presents the value(s) of a multi-valued attribute as a list:: - css_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body strikeout"></p>') - css_soup.p['class'] - # ["body", "strikeout"] - css_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body"></p>') css_soup.p['class'] # ["body"] + + css_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body strikeout"></p>') + css_soup.p['class'] + # ["body", "strikeout"] If an attribute `looks` like it has more than one value, but it's not a multi-valued attribute as defined by any version of the HTML @@ -428,6 +428,12 @@ consolidated:: print(rel_soup.p) # <p>Back to the <a rel="index contents">homepage</a></p> +You can use ```string_attr`` to get the value of any attribute as a +string, whether or not it's a multi-valued atribute:: + + css_soup.p.string_attr('class') + # "body strikeout" + If you parse a document as XML, there are no multi-valued attributes:: xml_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body strikeout"></p>', 'xml') |