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html_minify wraps result with unwanted '<html><head></head><body> ... </body></html>'

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Issue Description

I’m minifying a fragment of an HTML doc and html_minify prepends with <html><head></head><body> and appends a </body></html>, neither of which I want.

For example:

>>> from htmlmin.minify import html_minify
>>> html = 'boo'
>>> html_minify(html)
u'<html><head></head><body>boo</body></html>'

Is there a way to turn this behavior off?

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Created 10 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:17 (6 by maintainers)

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moeffjucommented, Nov 26, 2013

wat. No it isn’t. Writing a HTML parser is HARD. Do you seriously think creating, let alone maintaining another one is realistic and smart?

Your problem is that html5lib (and BeautifulSoup) were made for the use case of documents. Fragments are not valid HTML documents, so they trigger automatic element insertion. On serialization, you get a complete (valid) HTML5 document. The question is why you are sending HTML fragments as text/html when your response is not a HTML document – just send a different Content-Type and you’ll be fine.

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dev-codiyapacommented, Sep 13, 2018

Is there any solution for this ? I am getting same issues . So, it’s clear that it’s not fixed with current available version .

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