Rich Morin wrote:
is not something I want to try in XSLT. I can do it in Perl, of course,
but I end up writing a lot of code. Am I missing something? And, to
bring the posting back on topic, will Perl6 bring anything new to the
campfire?
I think that one of the things that Perl6 will bring is
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:51:07AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> >So with simple data like this, I'd just use YAML. This isn't really
> >important, just a YAML plug. :) But it does have a better resulting data
> >structure as we'll see below.
>
> I went to a talk on YAML and was quite impressed, ov
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:55 AM, Piers Cawley wrote:
Apparently part of the problem is that the undef function isn't
fully defined.
Well, isn't that sort-of the point?
:-)
David
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At 1:29 AM -0800 12/24/02, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm going to take a left turn in replying and say that your approach to the
problem is causing the problem. This is diverging from the question of tree
manipulation, but I don't think that's what you really need.
Well-meant suggestions are alw
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> I find myself frobbing trees a lot these days
So that's where the ents came from.
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The Perl Summary for the week ending 20021222
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I'm going to take a left turn in replying and say that your approach to the
problem is causing the problem. This is diverging from the question of tree
manipulation, but I don't think that's what you really need.
Anyhow, on with the show...
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:02:09AM -0800, Rich Morin w
I find myself frobbing trees a lot these days: read in some XML,
wander around in tree-land for a while, then output either more XML
or somesuch. And, quite frankly, it's a bit of a pain.
The issue, as I see it, is that Perl has no "power tools" for dealing
with trees. I will admit that I don't
