Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote:
XML will not change the current status.
grep '<style name="Section"' somefile.lyx
will still work and it not so different from what we have now. You need the
'' already if you have spaces in your expression...
The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are
immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such as:
/^begin_layout/
because technically the whole XML file could be in a single line. Or a single
tag could be split between lines.
True of course, but in fact the file is likely to be nicely formatted.
rh
This problem is somewhat lessened by the fact that you could do the following
in Vim/ex:
:%s/</\r</g
:%s/>/>\r/g
:g/^\s*$/d
I imagine you could do the same thing with sed, I just don't know how. The
preceding would put every XML tag on its own line, and eliminate all blank
lines, after which you could indeed parse based on linefeeds. The other
problem, of course, is that angle brackets within the text would be linefed,
which may or may not be a problem depending on the XML dialect you come up
with.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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