• To: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd be better off as a crossing guard
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:10:42 -0800
• Cc: Jeff Lowery <Jeff.Lowery@c...>,"'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev@l...
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Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>>Nonetheless, regex is perfectly suitable for parsing XML in narrow,
>>provincial, tightly constrained and content-controlled circumstances. 
> 
> ROTFL.  If Tim had written that at first, rather than what he did write, I'd 
> guess this thread would never even have had legs.  I, for sure, would not have 
> been interested in arguing a truism.
> 
> Funny thing, though, that I have in my career encountered so few narrow, 
> provincial, tightly constrained and content-controlled circumstances. 

Well, I'm firmly provincial.  I even live in one.
-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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