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Re: How do you remove comments from XML?

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: How do you remove comments from XML?
• From: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>
• Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:15:35 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> 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.)

Rick,

Yes, but that's dangerously close to not being a hack ;)

Bill de hÓra

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  • Re: How do you remove comments from XML?
    • From: Bill de hÓra <bill@d...>
  • Re: How do you remove comments from XML?
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>

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