Re: How to work with XML data using System Events?
Re: How to work with XML data using System Events?
- Subject: Re: How to work with XML data using System Events?
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:58:01 +0000
Steven D. Majewski wrote:
>(1) If it's something simple, it's easier to extract stuff with a perl regex.
Important caveat: scraping XML data with regexes may be a popular approach amongst some folks, but it is a total cowboy hack and such solutions are very brittle and liable to break unless the XML data's structure is fairly simple and totally predictable, and its encoding known in advance. You'll always be far safer using a proper XML parser or a higher-level XML processing tool such as XPath, especially if you're not aware of all the pitfalls involved.
HTH
has
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