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Okay, so they're able to use Regex but at the same time not.
And since when are tags like "" and attributes like "class" subject to removal? <font> and deprecated stuff I can understand...
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Are you sure this 'CMS' isn't Community Server?
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They didn't write their own reg-ex language. Much less their own reg-ex processor. At this rate they'll never develop their own in-house, proprietary mark-up language. Color me unimpressed.
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I believe in this case it stands for "Clearly Must Stop"
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I'm pretty sure I would have strangled the writer of this before I hit the "span".
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My intro CS class totally taught this way of HTML clean-up.
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The first thing I noticed is that <script> is totally fine to have with this cleaner.
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The hell? That won't clean HTML, it will break it.
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I like the way it removes all the tag attributes first, thereby making the job of removing the actual tag a whole lot harder. But that's no problem, we'll just do a search and replace on "
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The fastest most dependable way to clean html from a string/file is to use SAX and only forward the characters events.
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"Naturally, their wheels aren't perfectly circular... and often times, they won't even fit into the most liberal definition of "round"."
Woah... they're not circular AND not round? What are the odds?
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Clearly they've missed a few:
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The Daily WTF- Curious Perversions of Written English
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I think I can clean the HTML better than this...
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There's nothing wrong with that sentence. It's like saying "She wasn't beautiful, and often she was worse than ugly". It's saying they're not circular, and sometimes they're not even round. What's weird about that?
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Wasn't perl created for doing stuff like this?
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Slowly put the Regex class on the ground and step away with your hands above your head.
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if (!(html.Contains(" >") || html.Contains(" >")))
I like it when code looks like 1 || 1. Maybe they thought the first html.Contains(" >") wasn't enough to find those pesky " >".
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I apologize... I, I just couldn't help myself.
if (!(html.Contains(comment) || html.COntains(comment))) out << "I'm Frist!";
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TRWTF is that there is no object model for HTML documents. I think I will write one and call it XMLDOM.
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So... conic sections like hyperbolas, parabolas, and elipses aren't rounded? I'm like 80% sure they aren't circular.
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I'm assuming you are an idiot, in the most polite sense.
http://www.w3schools.com/HTMLDOM/dom_intro.asp
Or maybe you are completely aware of this, and were funny or sarcastic, and I missed it.
Either way... I still think you are am idiot.
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Stick to your day job.
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You have got rid of everything! The correct way is to apply a xsl based template to get rid of the HTML tags.
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I totally get this code. A few weirdnesses but a marginal WTF.
I would have thought that behind this all, there was a "paste from Word into rich text editor" problem, but there's no smart-quote fixing.... Is it catching those notorious unquoted attributes that Word likes to throw into html?
I used this in conjunction with ckeditor once:
because Word pops a big ugly stylesheet into the first
element, and then I had to go and substitute html entities for all the Windows-encoded crap characters. Ugh.
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He's mostly a troll.
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I was expecting something along the lines of,
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How about those ladies in Rubens paintings? wink wink
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Mmmmkay. Such inspiring advice! I must assume you are in a profession that permits such life guiding instruction. Your five word sentence clearly dictates that. Are you a psychiatrist or a psychologist? No wait. You must be an underpaid public school guidance councillor. No, I got it, you are a janitor, who left their 6 figure Wall Street career because you though the streets were dirty. Either that, you might just be some piece of nearly congealed flesh that managed to string together a few words that have no meaning or correlation to anything I said.
Whatever you do, please keep your day job as well, because I wouldn't want to meet you in public after you climbed out of your cardboard box or dumpster or whatever hobble you live in.
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Cool story.
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Or do you no longer care about maintaining anonymity?
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This is the first time you realized that I am a smart guy. Keep up the good work!
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Now you're confusing Arabs with Indians. What's next?
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...and print the SAX parse exceptions traceback!
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Hey! This code was developed in my company!
And of course that is the best approach to do it. We had a close deadline, get it? In fact, one thing that i recommended to speed up the process is to stop using open source projects and start developing in-house libraries we could use.
That way we managed to keep the development time down to Six Weeks!
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Getting high is a means of escape. All of this is just instant gratification. Do not believe in instant gratification. It is bad for your soul.
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I think TRWTF is that while/if/break structure towards the end.
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an imperfect circle could still be considered round.
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I don't think there's a problem....