On Saturday 16 Jan 2010 14:32:13 Dr.Ruud wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Friday 15 Jan 2010 21:11:55 Grant wrote:
> >> Anybody here familiar with XML::Simple? I need to parse some XML that
> >
> >> looks like this:
> > Don't use XML::Simple. It is anything but.
> >
> > {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
>
> You need to get rid of those ugly things, they make your postings
> utterly unreadable.
What? Why? I put them by purpose to indicate that I'm quoting or including
code there, so people will know what was said by me and what wasn't.
>
> > <perlbot> rindolf: XML::Simple commits the fatal flaw of trying to
> > massage complicated and often irregular XML into the simple and highly
> > regular world of perl data structures.
>
> That is a strange sentence. I think what was meant:
>
> XML::Simple commits the fatal flaw of trying to massage complicated and
> often irregular XML into *a* simple and highly regular world
> of Perl data structures.
>
> This because you can very well represent XML in Perl data structures
> without any loss of complexity. See for example XML::Compile.
Wrong! If for example you have something like {{{ <p>Hello this is a <a
href="http://www.example.tld/";>link for something</a></p> }}}, then XML-Simple
will make a mess out of it. And XML-Simple tends to break more often than not,
and is philosopically unsound.
>
> > }}}}}}}}}}}}
>
> Double-yuck.
I still don't understand why you dislike me having quoting-designators.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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