From 926afc65c316c6e7cf3935c740c9328ceb57c84a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 18:21:26 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed api.php?action=parse&format=xmlfm hitting PCRE limit.

By the way, regexes weren't needed here at all.

Change-Id: I41d222a4d60ead3655f7565b6703186abcd223e0
---
 includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php b/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
index 57c641df56..17e9225c16 100644
--- a/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php
@@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ See the <a href='https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API'>complete documentation</a>,
 		$text = htmlspecialchars( $text );
 
 		// encode all comments or tags as safe blue strings
-		$text = preg_replace( '/\&lt;(!--.*?--|.*?)\&gt;/', '<span style="color:blue;">&lt;\1&gt;</span>', $text );
+		$text = str_replace( '&lt;', '<span style="color:blue;">&lt;', $text );
+		$text = str_replace( '&gt;', '&gt;</span>', $text );
 		// identify URLs
 		$protos = wfUrlProtocolsWithoutProtRel();
 		// This regex hacks around bug 13218 (&quot; included in the URL)
-- 
2.20.1