• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@g...>
• Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:51:23 +0100

On 02/07/2012 21:43, Dan Shelton wrote:
> s done by repeatedly applying the regex

the "repeating" bit is what means Michael's comment doesn't apply. That 
regexp is not trying to parse xml it;s trying to tokenize it to match 
tags. It is not for example trying to match begin and end tags (which is 
not possible with a regular language).

However it isn't trying to parse xml at all but some rather mre lax 
xml/html/sgml-ish tag soup syntax,

as noted in the comments it explicitly tries to parse unquoted attribute 
values such as huz=123  which are not well formed in XML and should 
return a fatal parse error.

david




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• References:
  • newline/form feed valid as attribute value?
    • From: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@g...>
  • Re: newline/form feed valid as attribute value?
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: newline/form feed valid as attribute value?
    • From: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@g...>