Possible bug in handling of HTML comments

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2008-01-13 à 21:08, Fletcher T. Penney a écrit :


> It appears that the _EncodeAmpsAndAngles routine is being run over  

> the comments, converting & and < to the HTML markup.

>

> I tried adding & and < to $g_escape_table, and then protecting  

> them.  This seemed to work, but caused other problems and is  

> clearly not a viable solution.

>

> So it looks like there would have to be a specific mechanism in  

> place for leaving comments alone, am I correct?



PHP Markdown deals with this correctly since I added span-level  
hashes and use them to protect tags, comments, escapes, and  
everything that must be left alone. Perhaps someone ought to backport  
that system to Perl.


Michel Fortin
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