Beautifulsoup add/insert html tag line in xml document

Question

I want to add a line with HTML tag using beautifulsoup.

Input:

<tr>
    <td>Hi </td>
    <td>Hello</td>
    <td>World</td>
</tr>

Output:I want to add the 4th line which is Good Morning in seperate tag

<tr>
    <td>Hi </td>
    <td>Hello</td>
<!--<td>World</br>Good Morning</td> -->
    <td></br>Good Morning</td> 

</tr>

I made the comment using replacewith function, now i'm stuck with adding new line. please help me on this.

So you want `world` to be replaced by `Good Morning` this right? — KunduK, Jan 14 '20 at 12:31
Try researching and writing some code yourself before asking for help. Look at [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21356014/how-can-i-insert-a-new-tag-into-a-beautifulsoup-object) and [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5598524/can-i-remove-script-tags-with-beautifulsoup) post to start. — Joseph Rajchwald, Jan 14 '20 at 12:39
@Joseph , I tried many ways like insert , insert_after but most of them are at soup level and the examples are one line but the above code which td at nested level i didnt find good example..FYI i was trying from past 2 hours — mukesh tech01, Jan 14 '20 at 12:50
Does this answer your question? [Using python/BeautifulSoup to replace HTML tag pair with a different one](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15545594/using-python-beautifulsoup-to-replace-html-tag-pair-with-a-different-one) — Tijmen, Jan 14 '20 at 12:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 14 '20 at 13:19

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First find the element and then next_element which is text and then replace with your text.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html='''<tr>
    <td>Hi </td>
    <td>Hello</td>
    <td>World</td>
</tr>'''

soup=BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
soup.find('td',text='World').next_element.replace_with("</br>Good Morning")
print(soup.prettify(formatter=None))

Output:

<tr>
 <td>
  Hi
 </td>
 <td>
  Hello
 </td>
 <td>
  </br>Good Morning
 </td>
</tr>

answered Jan 14 '20 at 13:19

KunduK

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Thanks for your response , actually i have xml document within it i have small part of above code.i read it as lxml document now i guess i cant read it as htmll parser – mukesh tech01 Jan 14 '20 at 13:25
@mukeshtech01 : does this solution helps to problem? – KunduK Jan 14 '20 at 13:29

Beautifulsoup add/insert html tag line in xml document

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