Apologies for cross post, I was confused between the email to the listserv and this. I won't let it happen again.
I sent the following to Somik Raha, and received a very nice response, suggesting I post to the forum, so here it is. I have posted the text of my email in its entirety below.
First, let me thank you and the team for putting together such a high
> quality product. I have found it simple and elegant. I do have a usage
> question, though.......
>
> Some of the HTML that I need to parse contains comments of the form <!
> --- text ---- >. The normal behavior of the parser is to treat the
> comment as white space (when parsing looking for just the text). Is
> there an (easy) way to treat such a comment as a null character
> instead?
>
> If it would be more appropriate to post the question rather than
> emailing you, I will gladly do that.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Chris Bird
>
>
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Apologies for cross post, I was confused between the email to the listserv and this. I won't let it happen again.
I sent the following to Somik Raha, and received a very nice response, suggesting I post to the forum, so here it is. I have posted the text of my email in its entirety below.
First, let me thank you and the team for putting together such a high
> quality product. I have found it simple and elegant. I do have a usage
> question, though.......
>
> Some of the HTML that I need to parse contains comments of the form <!
> --- text ---- >. The normal behavior of the parser is to treat the
> comment as white space (when parsing looking for just the text). Is
> there an (easy) way to treat such a comment as a null character
> instead?
>
> If it would be more appropriate to post the question rather than
> emailing you, I will gladly do that.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Chris Bird
>
>