From: Wes Gamble <weyus@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T05:06:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help: Matching HTML having trouble w/greediness

Robert Dober wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Wes Gamble <weyus@att.net> wrote:
>> > substitution that I'm doing.
>> > <area href="mailto: xyz@abc.com>other stuff, including tags<a
>> > Wes
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> So I was just typing and typing and typing...
> Glad Ur happy with it.
> Robert
> 
> 
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Robert,

I am pretty sure that it's illegal to put a ">" in an HTML attribute 
(you would achieve the desired affect with &gt;).

I agree that perhaps regexen are not the best way to manipulate this - 
however, I've already been down the path of using a HTML parser 
(RubyfulSoup/htmltools) and trying to output the resulting parse tree. 
Unfortunately, that parser attempts to "fix" the HTML for me and when I 
attempt to render the fixed HTML in a browser, it is "too fixed" for the 
browser to handle.

So unfortunately, I'm forced to accept what I get and only change it so 
that I don't break any existing stuff.

Hence, I'm using regexen to do my write - manipulation.

Thanks for the help though!

Wes

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