Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Ray
On Jan 16, 2007, at 7:38 PM, Derek Bump wrote: Bill Marriott wrote: I can say that once you figure out what two or three commands you need to use to parse an XML file, it's way faster than using chunk expressions or some other method. This is really what I ended up doing. I created my

Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-16 Thread Derek Bump
Bill Marriott wrote: I can say that once you figure out what two or three commands you need to use to parse an XML file, it's way faster than using chunk expressions or some other method. This is really what I ended up doing. I created my own ripText function which pulls the data I need,

Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-15 Thread Martin Blackman
I reckon people get put off by the long revXML function names and all the parameters. But if you are fortunate enough to have Galaxy, it makes things easier - you type the first few characters then use the autocomplete function! Before long you will find loops such as the following to be second

Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-14 Thread Derek Bump
Well, I'm a little behind the game, but I'm trying to work with XML documents, and I'm running into walls. I am having difficulty understanding all the different variations of XML, or for that matter, making Regular Expressions that allow me to forget trying to understand XML and just pull

Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-14 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 1/15/07, Derek Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm a little behind the game, but I'm trying to work with XML documents, and I'm running into walls. I am having difficulty understanding all the different variations of XML, or for that matter, making Regular Expressions that allow me to