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On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 02:17 AM, Paul Prescod wrote: > Okay, fair enough with the appropriate CSV parser library, the CSV > state management is magically handled for you and with an XML parser, > all of the XML syntax is handled for you. Either way there is very > little difference in programmer effort. > I'll disagree with *all* of the syntax being handled for you. Markup is handled so-so on the sax parsers - but content is handled fairly stupidly - many many extra callbacks for little bits of text seems to be the rule - forcing the developer to do some relatively fancy text aggregation and some of his own event detection based on history. At least that's been my experience.
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