• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@i...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 08:13:42 -0500

Original :
From: Paul Miller <stele@f...>
> ...
> I should have been more clear. I just want to use XML for simple
> non-web-bound application data files (document files). I need a
> non-validating parser that I can use to efficiently parse my application
> data, without all the complexity (and overhead) of something like DOM,
> but not as general-purpose as expat.
> ...
I had a task to convert simple spreadsheet data - each row was complete in
itself - to xml.  I saved the spreadsheet as a tab-delimited file, converted
it to XML using awk, and did the simple processing I needed to do using
regular expressions in Python. It was quick and easy.

Tom Passin


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