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65 Legacy interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
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187 <p>Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.</p>
188 <p>Returns a list instead of a single root Element to support
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190 <p>You can pass a different Element factory through the <code class="link">makeelement</code>
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227 """Legacy interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
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