How does the HTML Purifier in PHP provide a more comprehensive protection against XSS compared to simple filtering methods like removing certain tags and attributes?

HTML Purifier in PHP provides a more comprehensive protection against XSS compared to simple filtering methods because it not only removes potentially harmful tags and attributes, but it also sanitizes and validates the entire HTML input to ensure that only safe and valid HTML elements are allowed. This helps prevent various XSS attacks that can bypass simple filtering methods. 

// Example code using HTML Purifier to sanitize input
require_once 'path/to/HTMLPurifier.auto.php';

$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);

$dirty_html = "<script>alert('XSS attack');</script>";
$clean_html = $purifier->purify($dirty_html);

echo $clean_html;

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HTML Purifier PHP XSS filtering methods attributes

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