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workaround_js_comments.py
>>> js_with_html_comments = u'<!-- some... --> alert("oi"); <!-- ...comments -->'
>>> import js2xml
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> def strip_comments(js):
....: node = etree.fromstring(u'<node>%s</node>' % js)
....: etree.strip_tags(node, etree.Comment)
....: return node.text
....:
>>> strip_comments(js_with_html_comments)
' alert("oi"); '
>>> js2xml.parse(strip_comments(js_with_html_comments))
<Element program at 0x7fca876e6d88>
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