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Re: If XML is too hard for regular expressions, perhaps he'dbe

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for regular expressions, perhaps he'dbe better off with a parser
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 00:23:52 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <017901c2f80e$6b9654c0$4bc8a8c0@A...> from Rick Jelliffeat "Apr 1, 2003 03:20:33 pm"

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> Desparate Perl Hackers should canonicalize first. Get rid of
> CDATA sections, use a single literal delimiter, play with the namespaces,
> handle entity and character references. 

I agree, except you might as well go all the way to PYX format, which is
as well suited, or better, to Perl as to Python.

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@c...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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