From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:15:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: explain an XXX in more detail
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~63
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ce9fe880be7416d88e6d800528db4079db6d6b1;p=python

explain an XXX in more detail
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diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index 3e85a910e0..27352a1adf 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ class SGMLParser(markupbase.ParserBase):
             self.__starttag_text = rawdata[start_pos:match.end(1) + 1]
             return k
         # XXX The following should skip matching quotes (' or ")
+        # As a shortcut way to exit, this isn't so bad, but shouldn't
+        # be used to locate the actual end of the start tag since the
+        # < or > characters may be embedded in an attribute value.
         match = endbracket.search(rawdata, i+1)
         if not match:
             return -1