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> I guess that makes SAX masochistic. It's hardly a tree of nodes
> until something rips through the start and tags and builds that tree
> of nodes. I guess that makes SAX masochistic.
I think you're off the rails here. I would think Dimitre doesn't mean that it
is masochistic to use a system that flattens XML, as long as the system takes
account of the XML syntax rules and does this flattening in a well-understood
way. SAX is just such a system. My DOM+Generator preference is another such
system, although its advantage for me over SAX is that it makes state
processing very easy.
Using a regex on raw XML text is a different matter altogether. Is that
really a difficult distinction to see?
> And I don't understand this disdain for regular expressions over
> XML. Regexes are a perfectly useful tool for manipulating text.
Sure they are, and I use them for manipulating text all the time in my XML
processing code, *after* the parser has sorted out the structure for me.
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orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html
Universal Business Language (UBL) - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/l
ibrary/x-think16.html
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The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238
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perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html
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ry/x-tipcurrent.html
Using SAX for Proper XML Output - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.ht
ml
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/library/x-tipsaxflex.html
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