feeds: exotic xpath in html as well

1 year ago · c8669002e4
parent c524e54d2d
commit c8669002e4
1 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/morss/feeds.py
+++ b/morss/feeds.py
@ -488,7 +488,14 @@ class ParserHTML(ParserXML):
            repl = r'[@class and contains(concat(" ", normalize-space(@class), " "), " \1 ")]'
            rule = re.sub(pattern, repl, rule)

-            return self.root.xpath(rule)
+            match = self.root.xpath(rule)
+
+            if isinstance(match, str):
+                # for some xpath rules, see XML parser
+                return [match,]
+
+            else:
+                return match

        except etree.XPathEvalError:
            return []