from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup, BeautifulSoup from lxml_builder import LXMLBuilder from lxml import etree builder = LXMLBuilder() soup = BeautifulStoneSoup("bar", builder=builder) print soup.prettify() soup = BeautifulSoup("bar", builder=builder) print soup.prettify() builder = LXMLBuilder(parser_class=etree.HTMLParser, self_closing_tags=["br"]) soup = BeautifulSoup("test<body><h1>page<script>foo<b>bar</script><br />title</h1>", builder=builder) print soup.prettify()