Refs #30399 -- Made assertHTMLEqual normalize character and entity references.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/django/test/html.py b/django/test/html.py
index 8b064529b0..911872bb69 100644
--- a/django/test/html.py
+++ b/django/test/html.py
@@ -3,11 +3,14 @@
 import re
 from html.parser import HTMLParser
 
-WHITESPACE = re.compile(r'\s+')
+# ASCII whitespace is U+0009 TAB, U+000A LF, U+000C FF, U+000D CR, or U+0020
+# SPACE.
+# https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-whitespace
+ASCII_WHITESPACE = re.compile(r'[\t\n\f\r ]+')
 
 
 def normalize_whitespace(string):
-    return WHITESPACE.sub(' ', string)
+    return ASCII_WHITESPACE.sub(' ', string)
 
 
 class Element:
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
     )
 
     def __init__(self):
-        super().__init__(convert_charrefs=False)
+        super().__init__()
         self.root = RootElement()
         self.open_tags = []
         self.element_positions = {}
@@ -202,12 +205,6 @@ class Parser(HTMLParser):
     def handle_data(self, data):
         self.current.append(data)
 
-    def handle_charref(self, name):
-        self.current.append('&%s;' % name)
-
-    def handle_entityref(self, name):
-        self.current.append('&%s;' % name)
-
 
 def parse_html(html):
     """