From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 05:50:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be more permissive in what is accepted as an attribute name; this makes
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~1171
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8600b47b61ab9d3fd5cae0bf2f1559c98e42f5da;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Be more permissive in what is accepted as an attribute name; this makes
this module slightly more resiliant in the face of XHTML input, or just
colons in attribute names.
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diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index fe91c1b0398c..5ff9f70c96ad 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ commentopen = re.compile('<!--')
 commentclose = re.compile(r'--\s*>')
 tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*')
 attrfind = re.compile(
-    r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
+    r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-:.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
     r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~\'"]*))?')
 
 decldata = re.compile(r'[^>\'\"]+')