"Anne van Kesteren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Mind you, the sentence before that says 'should' for quoting <
>> characters which is just plain silly.
>
> For quoted attribute values it isn't silly at all. It's actually part
> of how HTML works.
>
Yes, but the sentence I was complaining abou
Duncan Booth schreef:
> The /> was in the original input that you gave it:
>
>
>
> You don't actually *have* to escape > when it appears in html.
You don't have to escape it in XML either, except when it's preceded by
]].
> As I said before, it looks like BeautifulSoup decided that the tag ende
John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's worse than that. Look at the last line of BeautifulSoup
> output:
>
> &linkurl;=/Europe/Spain/Madrid/Apartments/Offer/2408" />
>
> That "/>" doesn't match anything. We're outside a tag at that point.
> And it was introduced by Beautifu
Duncan Booth wrote:
> John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>And this came out, via prettify:
>>
>>>url="http%3A//www.apartmentsapart.com/Europe/Spain/Madrid/FAQ">
>> > value="/images/offersBanners/sw04.swf?binfot=We offer
>>fantastic rates for selected weeks or days!!&blinkt=Click
John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And this came out, via prettify:
>
> url="http%3A//www.apartmentsapart.com/Europe/Spain/Madrid/FAQ">
>value="/images/offersBanners/sw04.swf?binfot=We offer
> fantastic rates for selected weeks or days!!&blinkt=Click here
> >>>&linkurl=/Europe/
This, which is from a real web site, went into BeautifulSoup:
And this came out, via prettify:
>>&linkurl;=/Europe/Spain/Madrid/Apartments/Offer/2408" />
BeautifulSoup seems to have become confused by the ">>>" within
a quoted attribute value. It first parsed it right, but then stuck
