On 31-Jul-2011, at 11:33 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > A regex is the simplest IMHO, because you need not know the syntax of the > minidom parser. > But, again i have seen this quiet often that lack of knowledge of regexp has > led people to other solutions (the grapes are sour!)
In the eternal words of Jamie Zawinski: """ Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. """ http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247 Please resist the temptation to use regexps for XML, for down that path lies only pain. It always starts with "oh, only one token? Let me use a regex and get done with it," and soon enough you have a little forest of random-looking characters. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/ http://hasgeek.in/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
