How do I remove html entities (and more) using lxml?

I've got an html file that has some text that looks like this (after running it through lxml.html parse, lxml.html clean, and this is the result of etree.tostring(table, pretty_print=True))

 
224
9:00 am
-3:00 pm
NPHC Leadership

ALSO IN 223; WALL OPEN

The documentation that I've found on lxml has been somewhat spotty. I've been able to do quite a bit to get to this point, but what I would like to do is strip out all the tags except

, . I would also like to strip all the attributes from those tags, and I would also like to get rid of the entities, such as .

To strip the attributes currently I use:

    etree.strip_attributes(tree, 'width', 'href', 'style', 'onchange',
                           'ondblclick', 'class', 'colspan', 'cols',
                           'border', 'align', 'color', 'value',
                           'cellpadding', 'nowrap', 'selected',
                           'cellspacing')

which works fine, but it seems like there should be a better way. It seems like there should be some fairly simple methods to do what I want, but I haven't been able to find any examples that worked right for me.

I tried using Cleaner, but when I passed it allow_tags, like this:

error: Cleaner(allow_tags=['table', 'td', 'tr']).clean_html(tree) it gave me this error:

ValueError: It does not make sense to pass in both allow_tags and remove_unknown_tags. Also, when I add remove_unkown_tags=False I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "parse.py", line 73, in 
    SParser('schedule.html').test()
  File "parse.py", line 38, in __init__
    self.clean()
  File "parse.py", line 42, in clean
    Cleaner(allow_tags=['table', 'td', 'tr'], remove_unknown_tags=False).clean_html(tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/clean.py", line 488, in clean_html
    self(doc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/clean.py", line 390, in __call__
    el.drop_tag()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 191, in drop_tag
    assert parent is not None
AssertionError

So, to sum up:

  1. I want to remove HTML entities, such as
  2. I want to remove all tags except
, and
, , and
  • I want to remove all the attributes from the remaining tags.
  • Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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    задан Wayne Werner 3 May 2011 в 20:01
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