Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl

[Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>]

Yes saw that one too. True word Liam. Credit to Christiansen for
pointing out himself the very fact you mentioned.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 12:42 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>> More fun for the crowd here.
>>
>> <http://programming.oreilly.com/2014/02/parsing-html-with-perl-2.html>
>
> Both the link (that ihe mentioned), and the article by Tom embedded as a
> comment, "Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!" in the article -
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4231382/regular-expression-pattern-not-matching-anywhere-in-string/4234582#answer-4234491
> - are germane.
>
> That Tom Christiansen can do something in Perl does not, however, mean
> that everyone else can :D and of course Perl "regular expressions" are
> not in the formal language sense regular - there's an example in the
> documentation of matching balanced parentheses to demonstrate this.
>
>
>
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