DOM parser that allows HTML5-style </ in [removed] tag

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Update: html5lib (bottom of question) seems to get close, I just need to improve my understanding of how it\'s used.

I am attempting to

Answer 1

I added comment tags () in my jQuery template blocks (CDATA blocks also failed) and DOMDocument did not touch the internal HTML.

Then, before I used the jQuery templates, I wrote a script to remove the comments.

$(function() {
    $('script[type="text/x-jquery-tmpl"]').text(function() {
        // The comment node in this context is actually a text node.
        return $.trim($(this).text()).replace(/^$/, '$1');
    });
});

Not ideal, but I wasn't sure of a better workaround.