Status: New
Owner: ----
New issue 198 by leonard....@gmail.com: Empty or unclosed <a> tags are
duplicated
http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/issues/detail?id=198
---
import html5lib
markup = """<div id="1">
<a href="foo" />
</div>
<div id="2">
<div id="3">
<a href="bar"></a>
</div>
</div>"""
print html5lib.parse(markup).toxml()
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I'd expect the empty tag '<a href="foo" />' to show up only once in the
resulting markup, but it shows up four times:
<html>
<head/>
<body>
<div id="1">
<a href="foo"></a>
</div>
<a href="foo"></a>
<div id="2">
<a href="foo"> </a>
<div id="3">
<a href="foo"></a>
<a href="bar"/>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I get similar results with '<a href="foo">' instead of '<a href="foo" />'.
With '<a href="foo"></a>', the first <a> tag only shows up once, as I'd
expect.
I discovered this through a bug in Beautiful Soup 4, which can use html5lib
as its parser:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/+bug/838800
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