#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# xmlrem.awk version 3 by Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink>
#
# reads XML from stdin and prints to stdout, removing <!-- -->
# comments

# OLD: foo<!-- <ABC/> -->bar
# NEW: foobar

BEGIN {
    RS = "-->"
}

match($0, /<!--/) {
    pos = RSTART
    str = substr($0, 1, pos-1)
    printf "%s", str
    next
} 

{
    printf "%s", $0
}