Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Secrets of the XML gods. text, code, data It's the season for confession. First Tim Bray reveals a dirty secret: "a lot of input data these days is XML...in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it." Then Sean McGrath fesses up to his Python habit: "I know I should be invoking a WF [well-formed] parser on the content.xml string but gee Ma, I've got work to do." ... [Jon's Radio] 10:36:27 AM