linkify-html tries to parse empty tags

[iskrenvankov]

Hi, when using linkify-html I've run into the following issue:

Example input: Foo/Bar <> Zoo/Zar

Expected output: same as the input (no change)

Observed output: Foo/Bar <zoo></zoo>

[nfrasser]

Hi @iskrenvankov, this is an issue with Linkify's HTML parser simple-html-tokenizer. I'd suggest filing this issue there or escaping your input before passing it to Linkify:

linkifyHtml(input.replace(/<>/g, '&lg;&gt;'))

[iskrenvankov]

Hi @nfrasser thanks for the suggestion, in the end I did end up doing precisely that. Still, I'll raise it with simple-html-tokenizer.