HtmlCleaner / Bugs / #191 Infinite loop on <time><b><li>

#191 Infinite loop on <time><b><li>

Milestone: v2.22

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Scott Wilson

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2017-10-02

Created: 2017-09-25

Creator: Michael Ryan

Private: No

An infinite loop (and eventually an OutOfMemoryError) occurs when processing this HTML:

I encountered this in the wild while parsing http://www.southmoney.com/touzilicai/waihui/201709/1626722.html.

Infinite loop started occurring in the 2.14 release.

Discussion

Michael Ryan - 2017-09-25

Here's the HTML (once again eaten by sourceforge):
<time><b><li>

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Scott Wilson - 2017-09-26

Thanks Michael, I'll look into it.

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Scott Wilson - 2017-09-26

assigned_to: Scott Wilson
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Scott Wilson - 2017-10-02

This seemed to be caused by some inconsistencies in the HTML5 definitions file; fixing this seems to have removed the problem.

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Scott Wilson - 2017-10-02

status: open --> closed-fixed
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