Re: csv data to xml

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 ;-)

-W

> -- Graydon