Ned Deily added the comment:
Thanks for your report. Alas, according to the W3C XML 1.0 specification:
"For compatibility, the string " -- " (double-hyphen) MUST NOT occur within
comments."
So, it appears minidom (and other XML parsers) are correct in rejecting your
example as not well-form
New submission from Paweł:
from xml.dom import minidom
html = """
"""
minidom.parseString(html)
Result:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "minidom.py", line 10, in
minidom.parseString(html)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1928, in parseString
