patch #1462498: handle entityrefs in attribute values.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsgmllib.tex b/Doc/lib/libsgmllib.tex
index 27bf0b0..592c191 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsgmllib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsgmllib.tex
@@ -95,12 +95,15 @@ lower case, and the \var{method} argument is the bound method which
 should be used to support semantic interpretation of the start tag.
 The \var{attributes} argument is a list of \code{(\var{name},
 \var{value})} pairs containing the attributes found inside the tag's
-\code{<>} brackets.  The \var{name} has been translated to lower case
-and double quotes and backslashes in the \var{value} have been interpreted.
+\code{<>} brackets.  The \var{name} has been translated to lower case.
+Double quotes and backslashes in the \var{value} have been interpreted,
+as well as known entity and character references.
 For instance, for the tag \code{<A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/">}, this
 method would be called as \samp{unknown_starttag('a', [('href',
 'http://www.cwi.nl/')])}.  The base implementation simply calls
 \var{method} with \var{attributes} as the only argument.
+\versionadded[Handling of entity and character references within
+              attribute values]{2.5}
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{handle_endtag}{tag, method}