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Re: How do you remove comments from XML?

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• Subject: Re: How do you remove comments from XML?
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:18:44 +1100
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Some other text processing system that allow greedy searching may prefer
a different regular expression: select
    "<!-- Start.*?\.Net -->.*?<!-- End.*?\.Net -->"
replace it with 
    ""
(The .*? means a shortest-possible match. Also, some processors do not
include whitespace or newlines in ".", there is often an invocation option
to configure this.)

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe


From: "Bill de hÓra" <bill@d...>

> All one line:
> 
> sed -e "s/<\!-- Start [^\.]*\.Net -->//g" -e "s/<\!-- End 
> [^\.]*\.Net -->//g" in.xml > out.xml

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