New submission from Stefan Schweizer <steve.schwei...@gmail.com>:
HTMLParser should only handle entity references that are terminated with a
semicolon. I know that the semicolon can be omitted in some cases
(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3) and that some browsers are more
tolerant, but the following example causes some odd output:
>>> import HTMLParser
>>> class EntityrefParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
... def handle_data(self, data):
... print "handle_data '%s'" % data
... def handle_entityref(self, name):
... print "handle_entityref '%s'" % name
...
>>> p = EntityrefParser()
>>> p.feed("<p>spam&eggs are delicious</p>")
Expected Result:
handle_data 'spam&eggs are delicious'
Actual Result:
handle_data 'spam'
handle_entityref 'eggs'
handle_data ' are delicious'
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 97177
nosy: stefan.schweizer
severity: normal
status: open
title: Entity references without semicolon in HTMLParser
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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