[Python-modules-team] Bug#461629: python-elementtidy disfunctional since libtidy upgrade.

[Erich Schubert]

severity 461629 grave
thanks

For all I know, the package is now unusable in both testing and
unstable. Feel free to change the severity back if you know otherwise.

With the previous libtidy version:
---
from elementtidy import TidyHTMLTreeBuilder
t=TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.TidyHTMLTreeBuilder()
t.feed("<html/>")
print t.close()
---
<Element {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}html at -48204914>

With the current version:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File
"/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/elementtidy/TidyHTMLTreeBuilder.py",
line 95, in close
    return ElementTree.XML(stdout)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/elementtree/ElementTree.py",
line 960, in XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/elementtree/ElementTree.py",
line 1242, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 1

I figure the document I tried is the simplest testcase I could come up
with. It's even using XML syntax to make it easier for Expat.
An empty string won't work either, btw.

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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