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Re: [Boston.pm] HTML parsing: msg#00019

Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] HTML parsing
At 12:09 PM 3/20/2007 -0400, Dan Boger wrote:
>Of course, with the quality of HTML in the wild, it might be
>difficult to get it loaded into an XML parser...

Which is another good reason for hand parsing routines.  If dealing with WF 
XML (of which XHTML is a presentation oriented vocabulary), any old SAX/DOM 
parser will do.  This is a good thing.  Most docs purporting to be XHTML 
are not WF!

The whole point of XML, imo, is to standardize the syntax to allow app 
developers to focus on the actual vocabulary or semantics.  In any case, 
waste as few cycles (of the human brain variety) as possible on the syntax 
(quotes, angle brackets, etc.).  It doesn't bear thinking about.

take it easy,
Charlie



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