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Created March 31, 2014 22:54
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negative_lookahead.js
var crappy_xml = "<tag>some forget to encode & others &lt;do not&gt;</tag>";
// negative lookahead
crappy_xml.replace(/&(?!(\S+;))/g, '&amp;')
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