From: Daniel Baird <danielbaird@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T19:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: strip tags?

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On 7/23/06, Andreas S. <f@andreas-s.net> wrote:
>
> Daniel Baird wrote:
> > On 7/23/06, Stefan Scholl <stesch@no-spoon.de> wrote:
> >> A regex isn't always the _best_ way to deal with markup
> >> languages, but for an _easy_ way it's good enough.
> >
> > the problem is, it's not always the _correct_ way.
> > <div id="weird>id"></div>
>
> This is no correct HTML, < and > have to be encoded as entities.


That is true.. if the original poster has the luxury of only dealing with
correct html, he's a lucky fellow, and can kludge up some regexen that will
do the job.  Even in a well-coded site, it's not unthinkable that you could
forget to do some encoding and end up with angle-brackets inside a textarea
or something, though.

How useful a regex approach is depends on the data.  I have used a bit of
regex-type html parsing before and it worked fine, for the data that I was
parsing.  Horses for courses.

;D

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