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clarify new docs on attr value entity expansion

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Georg Brandl 2006-04-01 08:39:50 +00:00
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@ -95,9 +95,16 @@ lower case, and the \var{method} argument is the bound method which
should be used to support semantic interpretation of the start tag.
The \var{attributes} argument is a list of \code{(\var{name},
\var{value})} pairs containing the attributes found inside the tag's
\code{<>} brackets. The \var{name} has been translated to lower case.
\code{<>} brackets.
The \var{name} has been translated to lower case.
Double quotes and backslashes in the \var{value} have been interpreted,
as well as known entity and character references.
as well as known character references and known entity references
terminated by a semicolon (normally, entity references can be terminated
by any non-alphanumerical character, but this would break the very
common case of \code{<A HREF="url?spam=1&eggs=2">} when \code{eggs}
is a valid entity name).
For instance, for the tag \code{<A HREF="http://www.cwi.nl/">}, this
method would be called as \samp{unknown_starttag('a', [('href',
'http://www.cwi.nl/')])}. The base implementation simply calls