[New-bugs-announce] [issue15970] ElementTree HTML serialization incorrect for <meta>, <param>

[Joshua Biagio]

New submission from Joshua Biagio:

There seems to be a very minor bug in the ElementTree.py file, for the so-called 'empty' elements that are serialized without a closing tag. The HTML_EMPTY tuple/set is used to lookup these tags.

In the Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py file, the HTML_EMPTY tuple is created like:

HTML_EMPTY = ("area", "base", "basefont", "br", "col", "frame", "hr",
              "img", "input", "isindex", "link", "meta" "param")

There is a missing comma between "meta" and "param". I'm not sure if this is intended behavior.

The line should be replaced with:

HTML_EMPTY = ("area", "base", "basefont", "br", "col", "frame", "hr",
              "img", "input", "isindex", "link", "meta", "param")

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components: Library (Lib), XML
messages: 170699
nosy: Joshua.Biagio
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ElementTree HTML serialization incorrect for <meta>, <param>
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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