[SOLVED] [regexp] Meaning of '?' after '*'

boughtonp · 01-05-2024, 09:19 AM

An XML parser is not a HTML parser.

With controlled HTML, pre-processing before parsing can be safe (depending on specifics), but with uncontrolled HTML it is asking for bugs.

Michael Uplawski · 07-19-2024, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

An XML parser is not a HTML parser.

With controlled HTML, pre-processing before parsing can be safe (depending on specifics), but with uncontrolled HTML it is asking for bugs.

You did not read my posts, that is asking for misunderstanding.

NevemTeve · 07-19-2024, 04:34 AM

By now, one could have checked the relation between XML, SGML, HTML and XHTML. Neither of those is meant to be parsed via regular expressions.

Michael Uplawski · 07-19-2024, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by NevemTeve

By now, one could have checked the relation between XML, SGML, HTML and XHTML. Neither of those is meant to be parsed via regular expressions.

Why do you keep talking about XML when the problem had nothing to do with that? I *am* parsing HTML and XML with an XML/HTML-parser. This has not been the question.

boughtonp · 07-19-2024, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski

You did not read my posts, that is asking for misunderstanding.

I cannot guarantee what I did back in January, but I stand by both of the posts I made in this thread, and have nothing more to add.

I have no idea why you have responded half a year later on a thread marked solved just to say that.

Michael Uplawski · 07-20-2024, 12:04 AM

I abstain from using the Web as much as possible and was not aware of your post.