Add max recursion limit and fix to_text() method (#3773)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## 0.16.5-dev0
+
+### Enhancements
+
+### Features
+
+### Fixes
+- **Fixes parsing HTML v2 parser** Now max recursion limit is set and value is correctly extracted from ontology element
+
+
 ## 0.16.4
 
 ### Enhancements
@@ -9,7 +19,7 @@
 
 ### Features
 
-* **Add support for link extraction in pdf hi_res strategy.** The `partition_pdf()` function now supports link extraction when using the `hi_res` strategy, allowing users to extract hyperlinks from PDF documents more effectively. 
+* **Add support for link extraction in pdf hi_res strategy.** The `partition_pdf()` function now supports link extraction when using the `hi_res` strategy, allowing users to extract hyperlinks from PDF documents more effectively.
 
 ### Fixes
 

test_unstructured/partition/html/test_html_to_ontology_parsing.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-from unstructured.documents.ontology import OntologyElement
+from unstructured.documents.ontology import Form, FormFieldValue, OntologyElement, Page
 from unstructured.partition.html.html_utils import indent_html
-from unstructured.partition.html.transformations import parse_html_to_ontology
+from unstructured.partition.html.transformations import RECURSION_LIMIT, parse_html_to_ontology
 
 
 def _wrap_with_body(html: str) -> str:
@@ -605,3 +605,52 @@ def test_text_in_form_field_value():
     form_field_value = page.children[0]
     assert form_field_value.text == ""
     assert form_field_value.to_text() == "Random Input Value"
+
+
+def test_to_text_when_form_field():
+    ontology = Page(
+        children=[
+            Form(
+                tag="input",
+                additional_attributes={"value": "Random Input Value"},
+                children=[
+                    FormFieldValue(
+                        tag="input",
+                        additional_attributes={"value": "Random Input Value"},
+                    )
+                ],
+            )
+        ]
+    )
+    assert ontology.to_text(add_children=True) == "Random Input Value"
+
+
+def test_recursion_limit_is_limiting_parsing():
+    # language=HTML
+    broken_html = "some text"
+    for i in range(100):
+        broken_html = f"<p class='Paragraph'>{broken_html}</p>"
+    broken_html = _wrap_with_body(broken_html)
+    ontology = parse_html_to_ontology(broken_html)
+
+    iterator = 1
+    last_child = ontology.children[0]
+    while last_child.children:
+        last_child = last_child.children[0]
+        iterator += 1
+    assert last_child.text.startswith('<p class="Paragraph">')
+    assert iterator == RECURSION_LIMIT
+
+
+def test_get_text_when_recursion_limit_activated():
+    broken_html = "some text"
+    for i in range(100):
+        broken_html = f"<p class='Paragraph'>{broken_html}</p>"
+    broken_html = _wrap_with_body(broken_html)
+    ontology = parse_html_to_ontology(broken_html)
+
+    last_child = ontology.children[0]
+    while last_child.children:
+        last_child = last_child.children[0]
+
+    assert last_child.to_text() == "some text"

test_unstructured/partition/html/test_html_to_unstructured_and_back_parsing.py

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ def test_forms():
     assert expected_html == parsed_html
     expected_elements = _page_elements + [
         Text(
-            text="Option 1 (Checked)",
+            text="2 Option 1 (Checked)",
             element_id="2",
             detection_origin="vlm_partitioner",
             metadata=ElementMetadata(

unstructured/__version__.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.16.4"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.16.5-dev0"  # pragma: no cover

unstructured/documents/ontology.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class ElementTypeEnum(str, Enum):
 
 
 class OntologyElement(BaseModel):
-    text: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="Text content of the element")
+    text: Optional[str] = Field("", description="Text content of the element")
     css_class_name: Optional[str] = Field(
         default_factory=lambda: "", description="CSS class associated with the element"
     )
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ class OntologyElement(BaseModel):
         return result_html
 
     def to_text(self, add_children=True) -> str:
-        return " ".join(BeautifulSoup(self.to_html(add_children), "html.parser").stripped_strings)
+        if self.children and add_children:
+            children_text = " ".join(child.to_text().strip() for child in self.children)
+            return children_text
+        return BeautifulSoup(self.to_html()).get_text().strip()
 
     def _construct_attribute_string(self, attributes: dict) -> str:
         return " ".join(
@@ -450,15 +453,6 @@ class Form(OntologyElement):
     elementType: ElementTypeEnum = Field(ElementTypeEnum.form, frozen=True)
     allowed_tags: List[str] = Field(["form"], frozen=True)
 
-    def to_text(self, add_children=True) -> str:
-        texts = [self.text] if self.text else []
-
-        if add_children:
-            for child in self.children:
-                texts.append(child.to_text(add_children=True))
-
-        return " ".join(filter(None, texts)).strip()
-
 
 class FormField(OntologyElement):
     description: str = Field("A property value of a form", frozen=True)
@@ -472,7 +466,8 @@ class FormFieldValue(OntologyElement):
     allowed_tags: List[str] = Field(["input"], frozen=True)
 
     def to_text(self, add_children=True) -> str:
-        return super().to_text() + self.additional_attributes.get("value", "")
+        text = super().to_text() + self.additional_attributes.get("value", "")
+        return text.strip()
 
 
 class Checkbox(OntologyElement):

unstructured/partition/html/transformations.py

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ from unstructured.documents.ontology import (
     UncategorizedText,
 )
 
+RECURSION_LIMIT = 50
+
 
 def ontology_to_unstructured_elements(
     ontology_element: OntologyElement,
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ def ontology_to_unstructured_elements(
         list[Element]: A list of unstructured Element objects.
     """
     elements_to_return = []
-    if ontology_element.elementType == ElementTypeEnum.layout:
+    if ontology_element.elementType == ElementTypeEnum.layout and depth <= RECURSION_LIMIT:
 
         if page_number is None and isinstance(ontology_element, Page):
             page_number = ontology_element.page_number
@@ -354,7 +356,7 @@ def remove_empty_tags_from_html_content(html_content: str) -> str:
     return str(soup)
 
 
-def parse_html_to_ontology_element(soup: Tag) -> OntologyElement | None:
+def parse_html_to_ontology_element(soup: Tag, recursion_depth: int = 1) -> OntologyElement | None:
     """
     Converts a BeautifulSoup Tag object into an OntologyElement object. This function is recursive.
     First tries to recognize a class from Unstructured Ontology, then if class is matched tries
@@ -364,6 +366,7 @@ def parse_html_to_ontology_element(soup: Tag) -> OntologyElement | None:
 
     Args:
         soup (Tag): The BeautifulSoup Tag object to be converted.
+        recursion_depth (int): Flag to control limit of recursion depth.
 
     Returns:
         OntologyElement: The converted OntologyElement object.
@@ -384,12 +387,13 @@ def parse_html_to_ontology_element(soup: Tag) -> OntologyElement | None:
         and any(isinstance(content, Tag) for content in soup.contents)
         or ontology_class().elementType == ElementTypeEnum.layout
     )
+    should_unwrap_html = has_children and recursion_depth <= RECURSION_LIMIT
 
-    if has_children:
+    if should_unwrap_html:
         text = ""
         children = [
             (
-                parse_html_to_ontology_element(child)
+                parse_html_to_ontology_element(child, recursion_depth=recursion_depth + 1)
                 if isinstance(child, Tag)
                 else Paragraph(text=str(child).strip())
             )