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<title>Comparing BBCode-Modules</title>
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<th>Module/Version</th>
<th><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-BBCode">HTML::BBCode 2.06</a></th>
<th><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/BBCode-Parser">BBCode::Parser 0.34</a></th>
<th><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-BBCode">Parse::BBCode 0.12</a></th>
<th><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-BBReverse">HTML::BBReverse 0.07</a></th>
<th><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/AUBBC">AUBBC 4.06</a></th>
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<th>Unbalanced / incorrectly nested tags</th>
<td>Leaves tags unparsed</td>
<td>Closes open tags or dies<br>depending on tags</th>
<td>Leaves tags unparsed<br>or closes tags if wanted</th>
<td>Creates invalid HTML</th>
<td>Leaves tags unparsed /<br> Creates invalid HTML</th>
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<th>Add own tags</th>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Some (2)</td>
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<th>Unknown Tags</th>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
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<th>Forbidden Tags</th>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>Dies</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
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<th>Provides parsed tree</th>
<td>No</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>No</td>
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<th>Block in Inline</th>
<td>Creates broken output (1)</td>
<td>Dies</td>
<td>leaves unparsed</td>
<td>Creates invalid HTML<br>depending on block tags</td>
<td>Creates invalid HTML</td>
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<li>(1) The output from <tt>'[i] italic [code]code block[/code] [/i]'</tt>:<br>
<pre>&lt;span style=&quot;font-style:italic&quot;&gt; italic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;bbcode_code_header&quot;&gt;Code:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;bbcode_code_body&quot;&gt;code&amp;nbsp;block&lt;/div&gt; &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;</pre>
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<li>(2) Not possible to build tags with unparsed content; must use the builtin [code] tag</li>
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