[Corpora-List] XML parsers vs regex

[Milos Jakubicek]

2014-06-30 16:13 GMT+02:00 Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org>:

> But apart from that, using regexes is normally fine for corpora,

Exactly. Though XML-aware tools (like XPath) look like "the right
thing", you should try to avoid them as far as you only can. A regexp
will be always faster, simpler, easier to understand for others.

Note that the W3C is developing a somewhat less known set of tools
called HTML-XML-Utils (http://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/) which
includes a number of utilities that make processing XML files with
line-based unix programs (grep, sed, awk, ...) a lot easier, e.g.
hxpipe and hxnormalize. I would certainly recommend having a look at
these.

Best,
Milos

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