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authorLeonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>2017-05-06 21:31:10 -0400
committerLeonard Richardson <leonardr@segfault.org>2017-05-06 21:31:10 -0400
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Improved the handling of empty-element tags like <br> when using the
html.parser parser. [bug=1676935]
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* It's now possible to use a tag's namespace prefix when searching,
e.g. soup.find('namespace:tag') [bug=1655332]
+* Improved the handling of empty-element tags like <br> when using the
+ html.parser parser. [bug=1676935]
+
* HTML parsers treat all HTML4 and HTML5 empty element tags (aka void
element tags) correctly. [bug=1656909]