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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients berker.peksag, ezio.melotti, hanno, steven.daprano
Date 2018-09-14.07:28:22
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There are at least a couple of issues here.

The first one is the way the parser handles '<![...'.  The linked page contains markup like '<![STAT]-[USER-ACTIVE]!>' and since the parser currently checks for '<![' only, _markupbase.py:parse_marked_section gets called and an error gets incorrectly raised.   
However "8.2.4.42. Markup declaration open state"[0], states that after consuming '<!', there are only 4  valid paths forward:
1) if we have '<!--', it's a comment;
2) if we have '<!doctype', it's a doctype declaration;
3) if we have '<![CDATA[', it's a CDATA section;
4) if it's something else, it's a bogus comment;

The above example should therefore fall into 4), and be treated like a bogus comment.

PR-9295 changes parse_html_declaration() to align to the specs and implement path 3), resulting in the webpage being parsed without errors (the invalid markup is considered as a bogus comment).


The second issue is about an EOF in the middle of a bogus markup declaration, like in the minified example provided by OP ("<![\n").  In this case the comment should still be emitted ('[\n'), but currently nothing gets emitted.  I'll look more into it either tomorrow or later this month and update the PR accordingly (or perhaps I'll open a separate issue).


[0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/syntax.html#tokenizer-markup-declaration-open-state
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