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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:27:43AM +0200, Wolfgang Laun scripsit: > On 26/06/2013, Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you're going to do a lot of whatever it is, XSLT 2 is nearly ideal; > > you get your escaping for free, you can deal with the > > never-to-be-sufficiently accursed quoted commas by tokenizing on "?,"? > > after tokenizing on the newlines, the unparsed-text functions are very > > handy things, matches, replace, and xsl:analyze-string really can do > > about everything you'd want. > > > > I realize it isn't a traditional way to think of XSLT, but, really, 2.0 > > is very nearly as good as perl for pure string handling tasks. _And_ it > > won't let you commit some sin of omission with your character encoding. > > It would be a *very* interesting experiment to write this in XSLT 2.0 > (you) and in Perl 5 (me), exchange, test and compare ;-) While I agree that would be an interesting experiment, I'm not sure we've got an adequate specification. Especially the parts about "comprehensibility" and "maintainability". :) -- Graydon
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