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author | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2013-10-28 07:17:18 -0400 |
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committer | Leonard Richardson <leonard.richardson@canonical.com> | 2013-10-28 07:17:18 -0400 |
commit | 3a61d8fcb6ef97bd5638120ac9314686109f327b (patch) | |
tree | 5a4225eae5eed40ab5fccaab30fc6873bc37495a /doc | |
parent | 60fb9fced8c65c0c72a03b9ad50d4a4c8277a169 (diff) | |
download | beautifulsoup4-3a61d8fcb6ef97bd5638120ac9314686109f327b.tar.gz |
Made it as clear as possible the Beautiful Soup does not support any standardized subset of CSS selector syntax.
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index 1dc85a0..22a8453 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1619,10 +1619,9 @@ tag it contains. CSS selectors ------------- -Beautiful Soup supports the most commonly-used `CSS selectors -<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html>`_. Just pass a string into -the ``.select()`` method of a ``Tag`` object or the ``BeautifulSoup`` -object itself. +Beautiful Soup supports the most commonly-used CSS selectors. Just +pass a string into the ``.select()`` method of a ``Tag`` object or the +``BeautifulSoup`` object itself. You can find tags:: @@ -1729,9 +1728,9 @@ Match language codes:: This is a convenience for users who know the CSS selector syntax. You can do all this stuff with the Beautiful Soup API. And if CSS -selectors are all you need, you might as well use lxml directly, -because it's faster. But this lets you `combine` simple CSS selectors -with the Beautiful Soup API. +selectors are all you need, you might as well use lxml directly: it's +a lot faster, and it supports more CSS selectors . But this lets you +`combine` simple CSS selectors with the Beautiful Soup API. Modifying the tree |