From the Orient

??Simon Willison?? has enabled a subset of HTML in his comments by writing his own XML parser to check validity

bq. The system I have implemented works by running submitted posts through an XML parser, which checks that each element is in my list of allowed elements, is nested correctly (you can’t put a blockquote inside a p for example) and doesn’t have any illegal attributes.

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