From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T00:17:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove HTML from String?

On 09/01/06, Eric Schwartz <emschwar@mail.ericschwartz.us> wrote:
> More like, "Just pray the HTML you are modifying doesn't happen to be
> completely valid, but not formed in exactly the way you are
> expecting."  For instance, the following HTML snippet is completely
> valid, but screws up the regex:
>
> <p>a <img src="greaterthan.gif" alt=">" /> b</p>

Actually, that is *not* completely valid, at least not valid XHTML
(which is what I use these days). You have to do that as:

  <p>a <img src="greaterthan.gif" alt="&gt;" /> b</p>

But my regexp wasn't intended to be complete; there are full libraries
out there for that.

-austin
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