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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsgmllib.tex | 7 |
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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} |