Re: Crash on bad doctype declaration
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Leonard Richardson
Jul 13, 2012, 1:20:22 PM7/13/12
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> Has anyone seen this? Do you have a workaround?
>
> It looks like this is a bug in libxml2 though.
It is a bug in libxml2. I filed the bug back in March and the lxml
developer committed a fix to the development branch.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/984936
Apart from upgrading lxml, the best workaround would be to parse the
document with html5lib or html.parser.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-a-parser
Leonard
>
> It looks like this is a bug in libxml2 though.
It is a bug in libxml2. I filed the bug back in March and the lxml
developer committed a fix to the development branch.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/984936
Apart from upgrading lxml, the best workaround would be to parse the
document with html5lib or html.parser.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#installing-a-parser
Leonard
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