+
+ # Fix up some stupid HTML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1553
+ object_str = re.sub(r'(<param name="[^"]+" value="[^"]+")>',
+ lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
+ # Fix up some stupid XML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1608
+ object_str = object_str.replace(u'<--', u'<!--')
+