tagValidation_customPattern

# HTML TAGS 

<
  /?
  (EMPTY|[bui]|sup|sub|strong|strike|small|ul|ol|li|a|em|br\s*/?|img|var|span|div|p|run\d|style|center)
  (\s+[^<>]+)?
>

| # PAQ CODE-ONLY SEGMENTS

^((PA|Q)\d[A-Z0-9]+)$

| # ESCAPED BREAK TAG

<br\s?/>

| # SYMBOLS 

[▼►⇑●∠]

| # ESCAPED HEXADECIMAL ENTITY REFERENCES

&#x\w+?;

| # FORMATTING PLACEHOLDERS 

%s

| # IPSOS BLOCK

( 
  # Hashed entities between {} (eg. {#\.CLROFF}, {#\.CLRON}, {#CLROFF}, {#CLRON}, {#Country}, {#Q12_recode}, {#Q41_ins}, {#Q41A_recode}, {#Q41B_recode}, {#Q41C_recode}, {#Q41D_recode}, {#Q41E_recode}, {#Q41F_recode}, {#Q41G_recode}, {#Q41I_recode}, {#Q41J_recode}, {#Q43_Currency})
  \{#.+?\}
  |
  # Entities preceded by @ between {} (eg. {@Q2_loop}, {@}), needed for IPSOS
  \{@.*?\}
  |  
  # Upper case entities between {} (eg. {COUNTRY}, {ANSWER}, {CATEGORY}, {LENGTH}, {MAXANSWERS}, {MAXLENGTH}, {MINANSWERS}, {MINLENGTH}, {QUESTION_NUMBER}, {QUESTION}, {RANGE})
  \{[A-Z_]+\}
  |
  # Upper case entities between [] (eg. [COUNTRY])
  \[[A-Z_]+\]
)

((\s*|^)#\s.*)?(\n|\Z)|^\s+