From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2001-11-26T20:45:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26494] Re: String editing question

HarryO wrote:
> So, can anyone suggest the right way to approach this?

Not the "right way", but one that I, as a I find myself using
"pseudo-xml" in lots of posts, prefer, is that recognized legal tags are
entered as HTML, and all other instances of < and > are replaced with
&lt; and &gt;

This seems somewhat easier to implement too. You could regexp on any
occurance of /<.*>/, check if the contents are listed in the "allowed
tags" list, and gsub the < and > if not.
 
Of course, this is just of the top of my (quite often faulty) head.

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