Sjoerd writes:
When literal mode is entered it should exit automatically when the
matching close tag of the last unclosed open tag is encountered. This
patch fixes this.
diff --git a/Lib/xmllib.py b/Lib/xmllib.py
index 06dc373..4e62ae5 100644
--- a/Lib/xmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmllib.py
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@
if k < 0: break
self.lineno = self.lineno + string.count(rawdata[i:k], '\n')
i = k
- self.literal = 0
continue
if commentopen.match(rawdata, i):
if self.literal:
@@ -503,11 +502,19 @@
return -1
res = tagfind.match(rawdata, i+2)
if res is None:
+ if self.literal:
+ self.handle_data(rawdata[i])
+ return i+1
self.syntax_error('no name specified in end tag')
tag = ''
k = i+2
else:
tag = res.group(0)
+ if self.literal:
+ if not self.stack or tag != self.stack[-1]:
+ self.handle_data(rawdata[i])
+ return i+1
+ self.literal = 0
k = res.end(0)
if endbracket.match(rawdata, k) is None:
self.syntax_error('garbage in end tag')