From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 20:59:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch by Chris Herborth (posted to comp.lang.python)to make it behave
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a2~356
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5fdf85254c1438760efb452de0fdb1774f29d783;p=python

Patch by Chris Herborth (posted to comp.lang.python)to make it behave
with tags that have - or . in their names.
---

diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index d04204971f..ffb2ccc348 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ entityref = re.compile('&([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*)[^a-zA-Z0-9]')
 charref = re.compile('&#([0-9]+)[^0-9]')
 
 starttagopen = re.compile('<[>a-zA-Z]')
-shorttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*/')
-shorttag = re.compile('<([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)/([^/]*)/')
+shorttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*/')
+shorttag = re.compile('<([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*)/([^/]*)/')
 piopen = re.compile('<\?')
 piclose = re.compile('>')
 endtagopen = re.compile('</[<>a-zA-Z]')
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ endbracket = re.compile('[<>]')
 special = re.compile('<![^<>]*>')
 commentopen = re.compile('<!--')
 commentclose = re.compile('--[%s]*>' % string.whitespace)
-tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*')
+tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*')
 attrfind = re.compile(
     '[%s]+([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
     + ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace, string.whitespace))