Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: Hello
XML of the form <tag/> are an SGML hack, or more precisely the combination of two features of SGML. The forward slash closes the tag, and the following angle bracket is character data, not part of the tag. The W3C validator uses a real SGML parser for HTML doctypes, and fails on XML-like /> constructs: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=data%3Atext%2Fhtml%2C%3C!DOCTYPE+html+PUBLIC+%22-%2F%2FW3C%2F%2FDTD+HTML+4.01%2F%2FEN%22+%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2Fhtml4%2Fstrict.dtd%22%3E+%3Chtml%3E+%3Chead%3E+++%3Ctitle%3ETest%3C%2Ftitle%3E+++%3Cmeta+name%3Dtest+content%3Done%2F%3E+++%3Cmeta+name%3Dbug+content%3Dtwo%3E+%3C%2Fhead%3E+%3Cbody%3E+++%3Cp%3ETest%3C%2Fp%3E+%3C%2Fbody%3E+%3C%2Fhtml%3E&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&verbose=1 The complete explanation can be read at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html In conclusion, sgmllib is right. Use an XML parser for XML or an HTML5 parser for HTML. Kind regards ---------- nosy: +Merwok _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5498> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
