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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). Tracking hierarchy alone is not guaranteed to give you enough context for fool-proof processing. Why? New cardinalities sneak in as documents change (there use to be one <pulse>, now there are two). Or perhaps new attributes and elements get added that have co-occurrence effects (<pulse> has a new attribute modifier, or <pulse>'s grandparent has a new element that effects the interpretation of its <pulse> pulse nephew). Now, no schema or versioned spec is going to guarantee fool-proof processing, either, but it's more help than merely relying on context of hierarchy. So that XML defibrillator had better be reading a versioned, validatable document. I don't care if it uses regex.
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