So, I'm working on a programming project that I will only publicly call "Knightley". (I've spoken much more about it to a few select friends, but it's a relatively clever idea, so I'm not willing to blab about it to just anybody.) It's a web-based project that involves, among other things, annotating user-submitted HTML with custom XML tags and
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Just because it's nasty doesn't mean it's not the answer. Hacking, you know?
Just try and hack the hack. Make sure that you've got a decent back-up or recover-from-fuck-up in place.
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Assuming the results of this regex transformation can be stored decently, such as back to a database, for logging, and the associated source later reparsed by the slow library. Would make for a decent sanity spotcheck, either in development or live-maintenance.
You're going to be giving up XML validation.
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