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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex b/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex index 5ba8e86d34..b85ba564d6 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ \declaremodule{standard}{HTMLParser} \modulesynopsis{A simple parser that can handle HTML and XHTML.} +\versionadded{2.2} + This module defines a class \class{HTMLParser} which serves as the basis for parsing text files formatted in HTML\index{HTML} (HyperText Mark-up Language) and XHTML.\index{XHTML} Unlike the parser in @@ -23,6 +25,17 @@ that end tags match start tags or call the end-tag handler for elements which are closed implicitly by closing an outer element. \end{classdesc} +An exception is defined as well: + +\begin{excdesc}{HTMLParseError} +Exception raised by the \class{HTMLParser} class when it encounters an +error while parsing. This exception provides three attributes: +\member{msg} is a brief message explaining the error, \member{lineno} +is the number of the line on which the broken construct was detected, +and \member{offset} is the number of characters into the line at which +the construct starts. +\end{excdesc} + \class{HTMLParser} instances have the following methods: |