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

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Tim Bray <>
To
"Simon St.Laurent" <>
Date
2003-03-31T19:03:02Z
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Re: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> I'm currently writing code for selectively inserting and removing CDATA
> sections from documents, largely because a a certain data-centric piece
> of software insists on adding them any time I try to use markup in its
> fields.  It is an exercise in silliness, but sometimes that silliness
> comes from the data side.

Couldn't you just run it through Perl's XML::Parser or equivalent?  -Tim