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Re: rss regularis(z)ation

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: rss regularis(z)ation
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:41:25 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> > Feed the element content into
> >a tag-soup parser, infer start- and end- tags to turn it into
> >a tree, and strip out all the elements you don't want showing up
> >in the aggregator output.  Took me about two hours to code this up
> >(to be fair, I did use an off-the shelf lexer for the first step).
> 
> If you need to write your own tag soup parser, it ain't XML. That's 
> too much work for a job that shouldn't be necessary in the first 
> place.

Fortunately, Java programmers don't need to write their own tag soup parsers;
I did that.

http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup

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