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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/xmllib.py | 20 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/xmllib.py b/Lib/xmllib.py index 38328af..7b2a76a 100644 --- a/Lib/xmllib.py +++ b/Lib/xmllib.py @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # A parser for XML, using the derived class as static DTD. -# Author: Sjoerd Mullender +# Author: Sjoerd Mullender. import re import string @@ -44,14 +44,13 @@ attrfind = re.compile( # XML parser base class -- find tags and call handler functions. # Usage: p = XMLParser(); p.feed(data); ...; p.close(). -# The dtd is defined by deriving a class which defines methods -# with special names to handle tags: start_foo and end_foo to handle -# <foo> and </foo>, respectively, or do_foo to handle <foo> by itself. -# (Tags are converted to lower case for this purpose.) The data -# between tags is passed to the parser by calling self.handle_data() -# with some data as argument (the data may be split up in arbutrary -# chunks). Entity references are passed by calling -# self.handle_entityref() with the entity reference as argument. +# The dtd is defined by deriving a class which defines methods with +# special names to handle tags: start_foo and end_foo to handle <foo> +# and </foo>, respectively. The data between tags is passed to the +# parser by calling self.handle_data() with some data as argument (the +# data may be split up in arbutrary chunks). Entity references are +# passed by calling self.handle_entityref() with the entity reference +# as argument. class XMLParser: @@ -313,8 +312,6 @@ class XMLParser: attrvalue = attrvalue[1:-1] else: self.syntax_error(self.lineno, 'attribute value not quoted') - # XXXX are attribute names case sensitive? - attrname = string.lower(attrname) if attrlist is not None and attrname not in attrlist: self.syntax_error(self.lineno, 'unknown attribute %s of element %s' % @@ -565,4 +562,3 @@ def test(args = None): if __name__ == '__main__': test() - |