That's a good point, you won't be able to use JSP comments in static
files obviously... I've gotten spoiled in my work in that everything is
on the app server in an EAR lately, so I haven't had such concerns in
the past year or so.
I don't have any other suggestions unfortunately for those cases...
stripping them out probably becomes your best option at that point.
I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing, but it doesn't seem too
bizarre either, I'm sure someone has. I know I've used that
replaceregexp task I mentioned to switch my app to work on Tomcat and
Websphere because I develop on Tomcat but deploy to Websphere in
production and there are some differences... that task lets me "flip
some bits" in config files based on the presence of a given property.
I would think the same thing would work for you... If I'm remembering my
regex properly (and there is every chance I am not!), doing...
<!--*.-->
...as the expression to match, and then replace it with "", should do
the trick... Of course, that assumes all your comments are on a single
line, so you may have to have more than one regex to catch multi-line as
well (I'm not sure off the top of my head to indicate the possibility of
spanning lines in regex). You could do another for // and /* */
comments... the former should be pretty easy, the later again deals with
line spans.
Let me know if that works for you... if you have any trouble let me know
and I'll play a bit... practice writing regex expressions is never a bad
thing :)
Frank
Tom Frantz wrote:
Thanks for your suggestion about using JSP comments for everything to
hide them from the browser. That will definitely help me with my app
server stuff.
What about the files being served by the web server? We have some
static html pages and JavaScript libraries there with comments we would
also like to prevent from being sent to the browser.
Have you ever heard of anyone using an Ant task for stripping out comments?
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