[New-bugs-announce] [issue10035] sgmllib fail to parse html containing <!- .... ->

Wed Oct 6 06:28:02 CEST 2010

New submission from halfjuice <halfjuice at gmail.com>:

When parsing html containing the following tag:
... <!- ie6 doesn't allow empty div. -> ...
SGMLParser will stop parse following content without any warning. When such tag is removed everything works fine.

When looking into sgmllib.py, statement below found:

    if rawdata.startswith("<!", i):
        # This is some sort of declaration; in "HTML as
        # deployed," this should only be the document type
        # declaration ("<!DOCTYPE html...>").

I think that's why something goes wrong here.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 118048
nosy: halfjuice
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sgmllib fail to parse html containing <!- .... ->
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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