On 24.04.2012 20:34, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2012/4/24 Georg Brandl <g.bra...@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.melo...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
