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488	[patch] removetags filter doesn't remove tags without a seperate ending tag	ilikeprivacy@…	Adrian Holovaty	"the removetags filter incorrectly doesn't remove <br/> (possibly <img/> as well however I haven't tested).

I've included (sorry I'm unsure of the correct way to create and upload a patch, svn diff includes all my mods to other files) my modified filter which works, someone better with regular expressions can probably tweak the existing ones.
{{{
def removetags(value, tags):
    ""Removes a space separated list of [X]HTML tags from the output""
    tags = [re.escape(tag) for tag in tags.split()]
    tags_re = '(%s)' % '|'.join(tags)
    starttag_re = re.compile('<%s(>|(\s+[^>]*>))' % tags_re)
    endtag_re = re.compile('</%s>' % tags_re)
    singletag_re = re.compile('<%s*/>' % tags_re)
    value = starttag_re.sub('', value)
    value = endtag_re.sub('', value)
    value = singletag_re.sub('', value)
    return value
}}}"	defect	closed	Template system		normal	fixed			Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0