xml-dev - Re: Frontline report from the Desperate Fgrep Hacker

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Sean McGrath <digitome@iol.ie> writes:

> [John Cowan]
> >I happened to know that the element always appeared on a single
> >line of the file: the start tag, the character data, the end tag.
> 
> How could you possibly know that? 

Because he made the documents.  Personally, I use regular expressions
in Emacs on my own XML documents all the time, because I know the
lexical format in advance.


All the best,


David

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