Parser incorrectly recognizes (less than) as a starting tag

[prajal-alation]

Parser doesn't check if value after starting tag is a valid HTML tag or not. Parser should check if it's a valid HTML tag only then remove everything after starting tag if no closing tag found.

Taking example from : apostrophecms/sanitize-html#339

If you can find this for <$40, it's a steal! I would highly recommend getting it

after this text is run through sanitize-html which uses htmlparser2, the string is truncated to the text before the 'lt' symbol, so the remainder of the text is discarded. Is there a setting I am missing or is this a bug?

Input:
If you can find this for <$40, it's a steal! I would highly recommend getting it

Result:
If you can find this for

Expected:
If you can find this for <$40, it's a steal! I would highly recommend getting it

[fb55]

You must either be using an old version of htmlparser2, or have xmlMode enabled. Current versions of the module will skip over <$.

[prajal-alation]

@fb55 That one works in the latest.. but have another use case where for internal DB functions considering time dimension, parser is incorrectly recognizing the tag. ( or any word after < )

Example :
event_time<current_time()

This gets trimmed down to :
event_time

Any idea on what can be a workaround for that ?

[prajal-alation]

@fb55 any update on the above ?