• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: If XML is too hard for a programmer, perhaps he'd b e better off as a crossing guard
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:03:02 -0800
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Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> I'm currently writing code for selectively inserting and removing CDATA
> sections from documents, largely because a a certain data-centric piece
> of software insists on adding them any time I try to use markup in its
> fields.  It is an exercise in silliness, but sometimes that silliness
> comes from the data side.

Couldn't you just run it through Perl's XML::Parser or equivalent?  -Tim

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