For some reason, when exporting commented text with background colors, angle brackets for html spans are sometimes returned as entities by soup.
import uuid
import xml.dom.minidom
import re
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Comment
def get_text_nodes(soup):
return soup(text=lambda text:not isinstance(text, Comment))
def is_real_text_node(textNode, nolinefeed=True):
if nolinefeed and textNode.string == "\n":
return False
return not textNode.findParent('style')
def get_the_soup(input):
return BeautifulSoup(input, convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.ALL_ENTITIES, fromEncoding='UTF-8')
from cm.utils.cache import memoize, dj_memoize
@dj_memoize
def spannify(input, nolinefeed=True):
"""
wrap textNodes in spans
"""
input = re.sub("\s*$","",input)
soup = get_the_soup(input)
textNodes = get_text_nodes(soup)
textNodes_content = []
span_starts = {}
for i in xrange(len(textNodes)):
textNode = textNodes[i]
if is_real_text_node(textNode, nolinefeed) :
textNode.replaceWith('<span id="sv_' + str(i) + '" class="c-s"><span id="sv-' + str(i) + '" class="c-count-0 c-c">' + textNode.string + '</span></span>')
span_starts[i] = len(''.join(textNodes_content))
textNodes_content.append(textNode.string)
output = unicode(soup)
# Soup has introduced HTML entities, which should be expanded
output =re.sub(r""", '"', output)
output =re.sub(r"&", '&', output)
output =re.sub(r">", '>', output)
output =re.sub(r"<", '<', output)
textualized = ''.join(textNodes_content)
return output, textualized, span_starts