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Doco update from Sjoerd Mullender.

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@ -16,7 +16,18 @@ This module defines a class \class{XMLParser} which serves as the basis
for parsing text files formatted in XML (Extensible Markup Language).
\begin{classdesc}{XMLParser}{}
The \class{XMLParser} class must be instantiated without arguments.
The \class{XMLParser} class must be instantiated without
arguments.\footnote{Actually, a number of keyword arguments are
recognized which influence the parser to accept certain non-standard
constructs. The following keyword arguments are currently
recognized. The defaults for all of these is \code{0} (false).
\var{accept_unquoted_attributes} (accept certain attribute values
without requiring quotes), \var{accept_missing_endtag_name} (accept
end tags that look like \code{</>}), \var{map_case} (map upper case to
lower case in tags and attributes), \var{accept_utf8} (allow UTF-8
characters in input; this is required according to the XML standard,
but Python does not as yet deal properly with these characters, so
this is not the default).}
\end{classdesc}
This class provides the following interface methods and instance variables:
@ -140,19 +151,6 @@ subclass must override this method to provide support for character
references outside of the \ASCII{} range.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_entityref}{ref}
This method is called to process a general entity reference of the
form \samp{\&\var{ref};} where \var{ref} is an general entity
reference. It looks for \var{ref} in the instance (or class)
variable \member{entitydefs} which should be a mapping from entity
names to corresponding translations.
If a translation is found, it calls the method \method{handle_data()}
with the translation; otherwise, it calls the method
\code{unknown_entityref(\var{ref})}. The default \member{entitydefs}
defines translations for \code{\&amp;}, \code{\&apos}, \code{\&gt;},
\code{\&lt;}, and \code{\&quot;}.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{handle_comment}{comment}
This method is called when a comment is encountered. The
\var{comment} argument is a string containing the text between the
@ -223,7 +221,7 @@ base class implementation does nothing.
\begin{methoddesc}{unknown_entityref}{ref}
This method is called to process an unknown entity reference. It is
intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
implementation does nothing.
implementation calls \method{syntax_error()} to signal an error.
\end{methoddesc}