Treat the text at the current position as a tag, and scan it. Supports comments, doctype tags, and regular tags, and ignores less-than and greater-than characters within quoted strings.

Source Code

# File action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/tokenizer.rb, line 50
def scan_tag
  tag = @scanner.getch
  if @scanner.scan(/!--/) # comment
    tag << @scanner.matched
    tag << (@scanner.scan_until(/--\s*>/) || @scanner.scan_until(/\Z/))
  elsif @scanner.scan(/!\[CDATA\[/)
    tag << @scanner.matched
    tag << @scanner.scan_until(/\]\]>/)
  elsif @scanner.scan(/!/) # doctype
    tag << @scanner.matched
    tag << consume_quoted_regions
  else
    tag << consume_quoted_regions
  end
  tag
end