lxml

Cleaning html file cleans it wrong

Bug #671636 reported by Ravi
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Bug Description

I am using the default Cleaner i.e. lxml.html.clean.Cleaner() . I am cleaning an html file which is the home page of FSF. It is cleaning the file wrong way. It removes some of the page structure and then it removes the start of the style tag and the end of the style tag but the contents in between persist.

Attached is the tar of the original file and the cleaned version.

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Ravi (ra-ravi-rav-gmail) wrote :
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Ravi (ra-ravi-rav-gmail) wrote :

Similar happens with rest of the style tags too, the content between the start tag and the end tag is not removed.

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scoder (scoder) wrote :

More likely a problem with the HTML parser in libxml2 rather than a cleaner issue.

Changed in lxml:
status: New → Invalid
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