On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Just read (skimmed) apocalypse 5, had one concern - it looks like we are on a
> serious collision course with parsing the various *mls.
> 
> before:
> 
> m#<a href="a"><img src="sss"><!banner>..etc#
> 
> after
> 
> m#\<a\ href="a"\>\<img\ src="sss"\>\<!banner\>#
> 
> Also, the space being backslashed sort of bugs me. Surely there is going to be
> a 'non-x' modifier? And perhaps a modifier to change the character for logical
> tags from <> to something else (like <<>>, perhaps?)

Hey, if that makes people more reluctant to use regexes  to parse HTML or 
XML and leads them to use real parsers then this could be construed as a 
feature ;--)

Michel Rodriguez
Perl &amp; XML
http://www.xmltwig.com

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