sgmllib.py not good at handling <br/>

[Chris Withers]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> No!  The reverse.  But sgmllib does NOT cover all of SGML
> (not even any _substantial_ fraction of it: SGML is really
> huge, which is why it was subsetted to produce XML!-), just
> what little of it is needed to parse typical HTML, as
> the library reference manual says.

So, this is actualy a bug in sgmllib? ;-)

How would I go about improving it to that it does something sensible with
XHTML-ish tags like <br/>?

What should I be reading or who should I be talking to?

cheers,

Chris