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Old 08-04-2019, 09:34 AM   #1
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Putting a soup back to the metadata
Hi,

i would like to modify the metadata. So i'm reading the metadata using bk.getmetadataxml() and make use of Sigils own Beautifulsoup:

from sigil_bs4 import BeautifulSoup

But i'm getting an html and a body element around the metadata

Even using the lxml parser doesnt change this behaviour. Is there any way (except deleting <html>, <body> and the corresponding closing tags myself) to prevent this?

Once i made my changes to the metadata i would like to write it back, serialize_xhtml inserts unwanted elements as well, is there any other way or do i need to make use of prettify() to get the metadata as a string and writing it back via setmetadataxml( string ). I guess setmetadataxml does not accept a soup...

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