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+<?php
+
+// This file demonstrates basic usage of HTMLPurifier.
+
+exit; // not to be called directly, it will fail fantastically!
+
+set_include_path('/path/to/htmlpurifier/library' . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path());
+require_once 'HTMLPurifier.php';
+
+$purifier = new HTMLPurifier();
+$html = '<b>Simple and short';
+
+$pure_html = $purifier->purify($html);
+
+?>
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