[Corpora-List] XML parsers vs regex

[Kilian Evang]

On 06/30/2014 06:02 PM, Milos Jakubicek wrote:
> 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.

Easier to understand? I'd say once you have a basic understanding of
XPath, it is way more readable than regexes. For example:

Regex: <word pos="([^"]+)
XPath: //word/@pos

Plus of course, the regex will break without you noticing and when you
least expect it.

Kilian

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