BeautifulSoup bug when ">>>" found in attribute value

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Thu Dec 28 04:54:00 EST 2006


"Anne van Kesteren" <annevankesteren at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Mind you, the sentence before that says 'should' for quoting <
>> characters which is just plain silly.
> 
> For quoted attribute values it isn't silly at all. It's actually part
> of how HTML works.
> 

Yes, but the sentence I was complaining about isn't talking specifically 
about attribute values. It says: 

> Authors wishing to put the "<" character in text should use "<"
> (ASCII decimal 60) to avoid possible confusion with the beginning of a
> tag (start tag open delimiter).

Not requiring "<" to be quoted in text is, IMHO, silly. However I fully 
admit that all the browsers I tried will happily accept < followed by a 
space character as not starting a tag.



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