Remove HTML Comments Rule

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Will Strohl
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05/21/2008 7:27 PM
I tried your HTML comment rule, but it was too inclusive. It removed way too many sections of code, and cause our previous issue where PageBlaster and CSS Editor began to fail client-side. Here is the rule: < !--.*?-- > Is there a better rule to remove only HTML comments?

John Mitchell
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05/21/2008 8:44 PM
No, currently I don't have a better one. It's a tough one because the html comments are used to "hide" javascript. I'll spend a little time on it to see if I can come up with something better, but I'm afraid there will always be something that causes trouble.

John Mitchell
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05/22/2008 6:59 AM
This one is a little less aggressive and will skip any html comment blocks that have a semi-colon: (extra space at front needs to be removed) < !--[^;]+-->

Will Strohl
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Posts:88

07/02/2008 8:37 AM
Somehow, that becomes too inclusive too. Argh! I even tried this (extra space added): \< !-{2}[^;]+-{2}\>

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