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Re: Parsing XML with anything but

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: <liam@w3.org>,"Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...>
• Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:26:47 -0000

Original Message From: "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org>

On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 23:10 -0500, Amelia A Lewis wrote:

Hey, Liam!

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:07:09 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> The "desperate perl hacker" was a significant and much-discussed use
> case during XML development, and was part of why we chose a > self-evident
> empty element syntax.

Mmmmm. I suggest that you didn't succeed. XML, in the general case,
cannot be reliably handled with regular expressions.

But I didn't say that I wrote a parser or that I handled the general
case.

(you can, by the way, use Perl's extended regular expressions to parse
XML reliably, because they can handle nesting correctly, but that's
another matter and not what I'm doing).

• References:
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: Gareth Oakes <goakes@gpslsolutions.com>
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@talsever.com>
  • Re: Parsing XML with anything but
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>