Re: [xml-dev] Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he 'd be better off as a crossing guard

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Rick Jelliffe <>
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2003-03-29T03:48:41Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he 'd be better off as a crossing guard
From: "Uche Ogbuji" <>

> Bill de hÃ"ra Wrote:

>> If you use tools that manipulate in the "value space", then obtain the
>> lexical representation that risk goes away.

> Bingo.  Thus my 'impedance mismatch" and "error prone" comments. ... So my 
> incredulous reaction was not because I haven't heard this claim of "regex 
> first", but because it seems amazing to me that this would come from Tim.

What if Tim's data is just strings: where the value space can* be the lexical space?

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

* allowing for delimiting