Re: [xml-dev] Suggestions for a slightly less verbose (and easierto author) XML

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

Rob Lugt wrote:

> Thanks for the link.  I didn't realize that Jon Bosak was the legendry
> "DPH".  I think that XML 1.x has already moved well beyond what most
> programmers are prepared to process with Perl regular expressions.  Surely
> Perl hackers use expat to do the hard work these days?

Well, I routinely use perl regexps to process great big XML instances, 
when those instances have been generated by machine.  There is no good 
reason at this point to introduce more complexity to XML parsing. -Tim