Parsing HTML with Namespace Using lxml

This function uses the etree module from the lxml library to parse HTML content and find all elements with a specific namespace.

Technology Stack : lxml, etree, HTMLParser, xpath

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def parse_html_with_lxml(html_content, namespace):
    from lxml import etree
    
    # Parse the HTML content using lxml's etree module
    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.fromstring(html_content, parser)
    
    # Find all elements with a specific namespace
    namespace_uri = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
    elements = tree.xpath('//namespace::*', namespaces={'namespace': namespace_uri})
    
    # Return the elements as a list
    return elements