From 6ce9fe880be7416d88e6d800528db4079db6d6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:15:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] explain an XXX in more detail

---
 Lib/sgmllib.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/sgmllib.py b/Lib/sgmllib.py
index 3e85a910e04..27352a1adf4 100644
--- a/Lib/sgmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/sgmllib.py
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ class SGMLParser(markupbase.ParserBase):
             self.__starttag_text = rawdata[start_pos:match.end(1) + 1]
             return k
         # XXX The following should skip matching quotes (' or ")
+        # As a shortcut way to exit, this isn't so bad, but shouldn't
+        # be used to locate the actual end of the start tag since the
+        # < or > characters may be embedded in an attribute value.
         match = endbracket.search(rawdata, i+1)
         if not match:
             return -1