[Corpora-List] XML parsers vs regex

[Phil Gooch]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Mark A. Greenwood <
m.greenwood at dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:

> And all these issues nicely illustrate why using a regexp to parse XML
> is a *really bad* :)
>

For quick extraction of data it can be OK - I don't think anyone would
actually try to parse XML with regex.

In any case, I'd argue that it's less bad than *writing* XML using string
concatenation :)
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