I am using python + BeautifulSoup to parse an HTML document.
Now I need to replace all elements in an HTML document, wit
It's just:
tag.name = 'new_name'
I don't know how you're accessing tag
but the following works for me:
import BeautifulSoup
if __name__ == "__main__":
data = """
<html>
<h2 class='someclass'>some title</h2>
<ul>
<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ul>
</html>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(data)
h2 = soup.find('h2')
h2.name = 'h1'
print soup
Output of print soup
command is:
<html>
<h1 class='someclass'>some title</h1>
<ul>
<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</li>
<li>Aliquam tincidunt mauris eu risus.</li>
<li>Vestibulum auctor dapibus neque.</li>
</ul>
</html>
As you can see, h2
became h1
. And nothing else in the document changed. I am using Python 2.6 and BeautifulSoup 3.2.0.
If you have more than one h2
and you want to change them all, you could simple do:
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(your_data)
while True:
h2 = soup.find('h2')
if not h2:
break
h2.name = 'h1'
From BeautifulSoup docs
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag
soup = BeautifulSoup("<h2 class="someclass">TEXTHERE</h2>")
tag = Tag(soup, "h1", [("class", "someclass")])
tag.insert(0, "TEXTHERE")
soup.h2.replaceWith(tag)
print soup
# <h1 class="someclass">TEXTHERE</h1>