Cannot change doctype
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lxml |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Olli Pottonen | ||
Bug Description
It appears that when one creates a new HTML document (with lxml.html.Element() or lxml.html.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
I found no way of changing the doctype, either at creation time or later.
Similarly XML document has no doctype and this also seems impossible to change.
Of course there is a workaround: if I want e.g. HTML 4.10 document, instead of
e = lxml.html.
I can call
e = lxml.html.
but especially if I build the document bottom up (not starting at the root element), this is clumsy.
(I suppose this is of low importance.)
| scoder (scoder) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in lxml: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| milestone: | none → 3.5 |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| scoder (scoder) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in lxml: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| assignee: | nobody → Olli Pottonen (olli-pottonen) |
| scoder (scoder) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in lxml: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
proposed implementation:
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