"""A parser for HTML and XHTML."""
# This file is based on sgmllib.py, but the API is slightly different.
# XXX There should be a way to distinguish between PCDATA (parsed
# character data -- the normal case), RCDATA (replaceable character
# data -- only char and entity references and end tags are special)
# and CDATA (character data -- only end tags are special).
import re
import string
# Regular expressions used for parsing
interesting_normal = re.compile('[&<]')
interesting_cdata = re.compile(r'<(/|\Z)')
incomplete = re.compile('&([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*'
'|#([0-9]*|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]*))?')
entityref = re.compile('&([a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9]*)[^a-zA-Z0-9]')
charref = re.compile('(?:[0-9]+|[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+)[^0-9a-fA-F]')
starttagopen = re.compile('<[a-zA-Z]')
piopen = re.compile(r'<\?')
piclose = re.compile('>')
endtagopen = re.compile('')
declopen = re.compile(']*>')
commentopen = re.compile('