How can you strip HTML comments out of a page generated with JSP/JSTL?

I know some people use ANT to accomplish this, but I don't want to remove HTML comments from the actual jsp, I just want a way to strip them from output unless a users adds a parameter to the url to show the comments for debugging.

Solution

Here is HTMLCompressor lib that can be called either from code or as JSP tag to strip comments and more.

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