On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 20:17, Carter Tazio Schonwald < carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically this applies in your case because recognizing if a sequence of > characters is in a comment block or not for HTML is likely not expressible > using regexes. > > There may be a way for a very controlled restricted subset of HTML, but it > might require some complex regexes. > Comments in particular are one of the places where SGML said one thing, the HTML spec which was loosely derived from SGML said a different thing, and most browsers did (occasionally mutually incompatible) something not quite either, with the result that they can be *very* difficult to get right in the general case. HTML is not at all easy to deal with. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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