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RE: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be bette

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To: 'Bill de hÓra' <bill@dehora.net>, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be better off as a crossing guard
From: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@creo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:08:21 -0800
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org

> And I don't understand this disdain for regular expressions over 
> XML. Regexes are a perfectly useful tool for manipulating text.

I agree with Bill.   Right now I'm writing regex to rip through a non-XML
hierarchical document structure, looking for particular leaf nodes.  It's
the flat structure underneath the hierarchy that I want, the same flat
structure that's presented when this file's data is shown graphically.

Sometimes hierarchy gets in the way.

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