"<![CDATA[]]" vs. BeautifulSoup

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Thu May 3 15:59:00 EDT 2012

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 An HTML page for a major site (http://www.chase.com) has
some incorrect HTML. It contains
	<![CDATA[]]
which is not valid HTML, XML, or SMGL. However, most browsers
ignore it. BeautifulSoup treats it as the start of a CDATA section,
and consumes the rest of the document in CDATA format.
 Bug?
					John Nagle

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