MLStripper

This class provides a mechanism for stripping markup from HTML content by leveraging the HTMLParser interface. It captures raw data, entity references, and character references during parsing to reconstruct a plain text representation of the input. Users can retrieve the accumulated text content by calling the get_data method.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
fed	list = []	A list of strings used to accumulate text data, entity references, and character references encountered during HTML parsing.

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Constructor

Signature

def MLStripper() - > null

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Methods

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handle_data()

@classmethod
def handle_data(
    d: string
) - > null

Appends raw text content encountered between HTML tags to the internal buffer.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
d	string	The text content found within an HTML element to be preserved.

Returns

Type	Description
null	Nothing is returned; the internal state is updated.

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handle_entityref()

@classmethod
def handle_entityref(
    name: string
) - > null

Preserves HTML entity references by appending them in their original format to the internal buffer.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	string	The name of the entity reference, such as 'amp' or 'quot'.

Returns

Type	Description
null	Nothing is returned; the internal state is updated.

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handle_charref()

@classmethod
def handle_charref(
    name: string
) - > null

Preserves HTML character references by appending them in their original numeric format to the internal buffer.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	string	The numeric code or name of the character reference.

Returns

Type	Description
null	Nothing is returned; the internal state is updated.

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get_data()

@classmethod
def get_data() - > string

Concatenates and returns all collected text fragments into a single string.

Returns

Type	Description
string	The complete string of stripped text content with HTML tags removed.

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