xml-dev - Re: Ugly XML processing looking for a generic XML solution (long)

[Marcus Carr <mrc@allette.com.au>]

James Robertson wrote:

> I would strongly recommend Omnimark for this
> job. This is bread-and-butter work for an Omnimark
> program (which combines both regular-expressions and
> element rules).

I second the recommendation to use OmniMark - additionally, if the element
combinations are complex, you might try using SGML instead of XML for the early
passes. You can use the tag omissability rules to save you a lot of context
tracking; end tags could probably all be left off and quite likely, so could
some of the start tags.


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Marcus Carr                      email:  mrc@allette.com.au
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