On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 20:17, Carter Tazio Schonwald <carter.schonwald@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.

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