Re: buggy regexp
On 01.06.2007 09:41, ilyabo@gmail.com wrote:
in fact I don't want to really check the validity of HTML, but just
ensure that only allowed tags are used. So the logic of the regular
expression should be very simple: if there is something between <>
then it must be one of the predefined tags.
Actually that logic does not work because it won't handle <> in comments
and attributes properly. Using a full blown HTML parser (of which there
are plenty around) is certainly the safer choice.
This is surely not impossible: the regular expression which I cited
works in Java too - it just takes too much time in Java, that's the
problem.
Often, changing approaches is more efficient. Why don't you do
// this regexp should be improved!
private static final Pattern TAG = Pattern.compile("<(\\w+)[^>]*>");
private static final Set valid = createValidTags();
static boolean isValid(CharSequence s) {
Matcher m = TAG.matcher(s);
while ( m.find() ) {
if ( !valid.contains(m.group(1).lowerCase()) ) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
Kind regards
robert
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