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  1. Bug #1694032
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1694032

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scoder (scoder) wrote :

Hmm, I take that back. I couldn't reproduce this with plain libxml2 (i.e. their xmllint tool), so it must be something in lxml.

$ echo "<a><b><b></a>&amp;foo" | xmllint --html --recover --noent -
-:1: HTML parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a and b
<a><b><b></a>&amp;foo
             ^
-:1: HTML parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: a and b
<a><b><b></a>&amp;foo
             ^
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<a><b><b></b></b></a>&amp;foo
</body></html>