Html Parsing With Lxml When There's No Root Tag

I've been building a scaffolding library for sqlalchemy using lxml and formalchemy, and I'm having a hard time getting them to play nicely. specifically, formalchemy.FieldSet.rend

Solution 1:

For parsing HTML you want to use lxml.html, not lxml.etree.

If you want a list of fragments instead of wrapping them in a div you can use fragments_fromstring(string) as described here.