On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <j...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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 > I had fun reading the following "quotes" :) “Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems.” –me_da_clever_one “Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… but by teaching him how to create them, you’ve given him enough rope to hang himself” – Andy Hood > > 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. > Using regular expression to parse XML converts what is inherently hierarchical data to linear, flat data. Therein lies all its problems. > > Kiran > > -- > Kiran Jonnalagadda > http://jace.zaiki.in/ > http://hasgeek.in/ > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
