From 0780b6bc58c107a8462760163403642e889ef735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:18:22 -0600
Subject: #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a
 bare /.

---
 Lib/html/parser.py          |  6 +++---
 Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py | 10 ++++++++++
 Misc/NEWS                   |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
index 2bfd187..de504ab 100644
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ charref = re.compile('&#(?:[0-9]+|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+)[^0-9a-fA-F]')
 starttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z]')
 piclose = re.compile('>')
 commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
-tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*')
+tagfind = re.compile('([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*)(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
 # see http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-open-state
 # and http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tokenization.html#tag-name-state
 tagfind_tolerant = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][^\t\n\r\f />\x00]*')
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ attrfind = re.compile(
     r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-.:a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[^\s"\'=<>`]*))?')
 attrfind_tolerant = re.compile(
-    r'[\s/]*((?<=[\'"\s/])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*)(\s*=+\s*'
+    r'((?<=[\'"\s/])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*)(\s*=+\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|(?![\'"])[^>\s]*))?(?:\s|/(?!>))*')
 locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""
   <[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*          # tag name
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ class HTMLParser(_markupbase.ParserBase):
         match = tagfind.match(rawdata, i+1)
         assert match, 'unexpected call to parse_starttag()'
         k = match.end()
-        self.lasttag = tag = rawdata[i+1:k].lower()
+        self.lasttag = tag = match.group(1).lower()
         while k < endpos:
             if self.strict:
                 m = attrfind.match(rawdata, k)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
index 3e2a590..c4f80cc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_htmlparser.py
@@ -409,6 +409,16 @@ class HTMLParserTolerantTestCase(HTMLParserStrictTestCase):
             ('starttag', 'a', [('foo', None), ('=', None), ('bar', None)])
         ]
         self._run_check(html, expected)
+        #see issue #14538
+        html = ('<meta><meta / ><meta // ><meta / / >'
+                '<meta/><meta /><meta //><meta//>')
+        expected = [
+            ('starttag', 'meta', []), ('starttag', 'meta', []),
+            ('starttag', 'meta', []), ('starttag', 'meta', []),
+            ('startendtag', 'meta', []), ('startendtag', 'meta', []),
+            ('startendtag', 'meta', []), ('startendtag', 'meta', []),
+        ]
+        self._run_check(html, expected)
 
     def test_declaration_junk_chars(self):
         self._run_check("<!DOCTYPE foo $ >", [('decl', 'DOCTYPE foo $ ')])
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index bfae292..44cb4a1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
+  a bare '/'.
+
 - Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
 
 - Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
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