[Corpora-List] XML parsers vs regex

[maxwell]

On 2014-06-30 15:33, Phil Gooch wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Matías Guzmán Naranjo
> <mortem.dei at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> wouldn't just writing <date>.*?</date> get me 'week after'?
> 
> I'd go for
> 
> <date>[^<]+</date>
> 
> which will consume line breaks. Of course, this assumes that date only
> contains text and no other markup.

Again, my knowledge of grep is probably dated.  But I just tried the 
above, and it didn't work (it did not consume line breaks, so it 
couldn't find things that were on two successive lines).  Are you using 
some command line parameter on grep that allows it to search across 
successive lines?

    Mike Maxwell

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