test<body><h1>page<script>foo<b>bar</script><br />title</h1>", builder=builder) print soup.prettify()

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup, BeautifulSoup from lxml_builder import LXMLTreeBuilder from lxml import etree builder = LXMLTreeBuilder(parser_class=etree.XMLParser) soup = BeautifulStoneSoup("bar", builder=builder) print soup.prettify() soup = BeautifulSoup("bar", builder=builder) print soup.prettify() builder = LXMLTreeBuilder(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()