On Saturday 08 September 2007, Steve Long wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:25 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > >> People who parse xml with sed make me cry. > >> > >> grep = also bad. > > > > Where do you stand on awk | head | cut | tail | xargs chains? > > Just awk will do all that, Roy ;) > > It's a shame xmlGawk got punted, it was the best project of its ilk imnsho. > That other project[1] was deader than a dodo, vapier ;P
that "other project" was started by the xmlGawk author as the replacement of xmlGawk ... i know because we talked about it via e-mail :P i'm not going to make a core package dependent on an external patchset again let alone one that requires linking against cruft in /usr ... it was a pima -mike
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