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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup
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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

by Vineeth Gopalakrishnan Nair
January 2014
Beginner
130 pages
2h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tag

The Tag object represents different tags of HTML and XML documents. The creation of Tag objects is done when parsing the documents. The different HTML/XML tags identified during parsing are represented as corresponding Tag objects and these objects will have attributes and contents of the HTML/XML tag. The Tag objects can be used for searching and navigation within the HTML/XML document.

Accessing the Tag object from BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup allows us to access any Tag object. For example, we can access the first occurrence of the <a> tag in the next example by simply calling the name of the tag <a>.

html_atag = """<html><body><p>Test html a tag example</p> <a href="http://www.packtpub.com'>Home</a> <a href="http;//www.packtpub.com/books'>Books</a> ...
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ISBN: 9781783289554