From e6b62f67033f36e948e7d11044aaf118105e22dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:45:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Regularized parsing of comments to match newer HTML spec (not
 trying to balance `--` inside of a comment tag).

---
 smartypants.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/smartypants.php b/smartypants.php
index 39aa719..3958c06 100644
--- a/smartypants.php
+++ b/smartypants.php
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ function tokenizeHTML($str) {
 		$index = 0;
 		$tokens = array();
 
-		$match = '(?s:<!(?:--.*?--\s*)+>)|'.	# comment
+		$match = '(?s:<!--.*?-->)|'.	# comment
 				 '(?s:<\?.*?\?>)|'.				# processing instruction
 												# regular tags
 				 '(?:<[/!$]?[-a-zA-Z0-9:]+\b(?>[^"\'>]+|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')*>)';