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At 1:38 PM -0800 3/28/03, Jeff Lowery wrote: >This thread sounds more like an argument for full-document validation prior >to processing, or at the very least making sure you've done document version >checking. Once that happens, regexing should be fine (assuming the >programmer understands the schema or specification the version info is based >on). No, validation doesn't help because it has absolutely nothing to say about comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, white space in tags, or character entities and very little to say about entity references. It's just too hard to tell what is and isn't the string you're looking for without using a genuine parser. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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