[issue24197] minidom parses comments wrongly

2015-05-14 Thread Paweł
New submission from Paweł: from xml.dom import minidom html = html body !-- img src=/images/obraz--super.jpg/ -- /body /html minidom.parseString(html) Result: Traceback (most recent call last): File minidom.py, line 10, in module minidom.parseString(html) File

[issue24197] minidom parses comments wrongly

2015-05-14 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for your report. Alas, according to the W3C XML 1.0 specification: For compatibility, the string -- (double-hyphen) MUST NOT occur within comments. So, it appears minidom (and other XML parsers) are correct in rejecting your example as not well-formed