[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a bare /.

Tue Apr 24 21:02:43 CEST 2012

On 24.04.2012 20:34, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2012年4月24日 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:
>> On 19.04.2012 03:36, ezio.melotti wrote:
>>> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/36c901fcfcda
>>> changeset: 76413:36c901fcfcda
>>> branch: 2.7
>>> user: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com>
>>> date: Wed Apr 18 19:08:41 2012 -0600
>>> summary:
>>> #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a bare /.
>>>>> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
>>> --- a/Misc/NEWS
>>> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
>>> @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
>>> Library
>>> -------
>>>>>> +- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
>>> + a bare '/'.
>>> +
>>>> I think that's misleading: there's no way to "correctly" parse malformed HTML.
>> There is in the since that you can follow the HTML5 algorithm, which
> can "parse" any junk you throw at it.

Ah, good. Then I hope we are following the algorithm here (and are slowly
coming to use it for htmllib in general).
Georg