diff Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex @ 28662:ee6df2c668ea legacy-trunk

Added documentation for the handle_pi() method, based on SF patch #662464. Closes SF bug #659188, patch #662464.
author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:36:52 +0000
parents 7de5c376232c
children d2e4c94efbaa
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--- a/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex	Thu Apr 17 22:23:36 2003 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libhtmlparser.tex	Thu Apr 17 22:36:52 2003 +0000
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 by a derived class; the base class implementation does nothing.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
+\begin{methoddesc}{handle_pi}{data}
+Method called when a processing instruction is encountered.  The
+\var{data} parameter will contain the entire processing instruction.
+For example, for the processing instruction \code{<?proc color='red'>},
+this method would be called as \code{handle_pi("proc color='red'")}.  It
+is intended to be overridden by a derived class; the base class
+implementation does nothing.
 
-\subsection{Example HTML Parser \label{htmlparser-example}}
+\note{The \class{HTMLParser} class uses the SGML syntactic rules for
+processing instruction.  An XHTML processing instruction using the
+trailing \character{?} will cause the \character{?} to be included in
+\var{data}.}
+\end{methoddesc}
+
+
+\subsection{Example HTML Parser Application \label{htmlparser-example}}
 
 As a basic example, below is a very basic HTML parser that uses the
 \class{HTMLParser} class to print out tags as they are encountered: