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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/06/14 19:08, Matías Guzmán
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<div>wouldn't just writing <date>.*?</date> get me
'week after'?<br>
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That would depend on what options your regexp parser was using. By
default many of them don't let . match newline characters,<br>
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I really can do everything I need with regular expressions. The
question is more about what is easier in the long run. Some
times I feel I'm writing too many 'for's and 'if's...<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-30 18:16 GMT+02:00
maxwell <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="">On 2014-06-30 10:13, Darren Cook wrote:<br>
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E.g. if your document looks like this, I'd rather
use a regex to find<br>
the proper nouns:<br>
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I am off to <place>London</place>
<date>tomorrow</date>, and then<br>
<place>Cambridge</place> with
<person>Mary</person> the
<date>week<br>
after</date>.<br>
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But if you wanted to find all the
<date>...</date> elements, and the line
breaks are as shown, a regex by itself isn't going to
work (in particular, it won't find 'week after'). You
need a parser, or else you need to do some
normalization of the XML (making sure line breaks
don't occur inside the XML elements of interest). And
if you're going to normalize the XML anyway, you might
be better off using an XML parser in the first place.<br>
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Mike Maxwell
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