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>>Won't our desperate Perl hackers' beloved $_ variable be significantly less >>useful if it contains the *entire* document. > >Just as it's not useful in processing HTML. Regexps that don't match across >line boundaries are the most common problem I've seen in HTML-processing >Perl scripts. Looks like that will continue until people figure out that >Perl's line "Feature" is jsut a big when used with XML/HTML. > Bang goes the the notion of a lightweigth XML app. then! Thou shalt always parse! XML as a friendly format to, say, DPH needs some explaining. To use Perl to read/write XML you *must* use an XML parser. Indeed any tool intending to read/write XML needs to use a *fully blown parser* to get at the document. Bye bye the entire Unix family of line oriented text processing apps:-( >IT Sounds to me like what we really need is a small paper (about 5 >paragraphs) explaining whitespace for developers: > I think this is an excellent idea! xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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