Re: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for regular expressions, perhaps he'd be better off with a parser

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> Desparate Perl Hackers should canonicalize first. Get rid of
> CDATA sections, use a single literal delimiter, play with the namespaces,
> handle entity and character references. 

I agree, except you might as well go all the way to PYX format, which is
as well suited, or better, to Perl as to Python.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              
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