On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 21:39 -0500, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> [...] Anyone who uses
> regular expressions for a grammar that relies extensively on parity is
> either stupid or poorly trained.
The "desperate perl hacker" was a significant and much-discussed use
case during XML development, and was part of why we chose a self-evident
empty element syntax.
Use of regular expressions does not need to be evidence of stupidity,
nor of poor training. I admit to using regular expressions to process
XML at times myself, although I also suppose that since I haven't
received a whole lot of introductory XML training I'm poorly trained in
XML...
Absence of carefulness is a problem, but that can be a problem with any
tool.
Liam
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