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Working with the web

Maintaining a request session

Cookbook

Introduction

Parsing and traversing a Document

Input

Parse a document from a String
Parsing a body fragment
Load a Document from a URL
Load a Document from a File
Parse large documents efficiently with StreamParser

Extracting data

Use DOM methods to navigate a document
Use CSS selectors to find elements
Use XPath selectors to find elements and nodes
Extract attributes, text, and HTML from elements
Working with relative and absolute URLs
Example program: list links

Modifying data

Set attribute values
Set the HTML of an element
Setting the text content of elements

Cleaning HTML

Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS)

Working with the web

Maintaining a request session

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