[SOLVED]How can I stop xss_clean from turning Html comment tags into entities thus displaying in the browser

[eluser]bobbob[/eluser]
So I solved this myself I think.
It has not been widely tested but seems to make sense.

Code:

<?php
$body = stripslashes($body);
  $body = str_replace('<!--','<!--',$body);
  $body = str_replace('-->','-->',$body);
  
  echo $body;
?>

That would be & l t ; ! - - and - - & g t ; without the spaces as that function is being done on my post too!