Re: [xml-dev] How do you remove comments from XML?

[Bill de hÓra <bill@dehora.net>]

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