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+from lxml import etree
+from BeautifulSoup import TreeBuilder
+
+class LXMLBuilder(TreeBuilder):
+
+    def __init__(self, parser_class=etree.XMLParser, self_closing_tags=[]):
+        self.parser = parser_class(target=self)
+        self.self_closing_tags = self_closing_tags
+        self.soup = None
+
+    def isSelfClosingTag(self, name):
+        return name in self.self_closing_tags
+
+    def feed(self, markup):
+        self.parser.feed(markup)
+        self.parser.close()
+
+    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 comment(self, content):
+        "Handle comments as Comment objects."
+        self._toStringSubclass(content, Comment)
+
+    def _toStringSubclass(self, text, subclass):
+        """Adds a certain piece of text to the tree as a NavigableString
+        subclass."""
+        self.soup.endData()
+        self.data(text)
+        self.soup.endData(subclass)