Your answer is spot on.  I don't know if he has markup and CDATA or if his 
files are large.  If none of those are true, cheap is good :-)  If it is a gig 
file with CDATA and markup, cheap would be bad.

E

-----Original Message-----
From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2019 2:24 PM
To: Eric Eberhard <[email protected]>; 'Ashjan Alsulaimani' <[email protected]>; 
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [xml] Xml Question

On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 12:18 -0700, Eric Eberhard wrote:
> Dear Ashjan,
> 
> If it was me I'd do it the cheap way and not use the parser. 

Make sure to handle markup in comments and CDATA sections properly,and to 
process external files included with XInclude or by entities defined in the DTD.

Working with XML at the text level can be reasonably safe if you know the input 
files well, and yes, i sometimes do it too, but cheap isn't the same as good :)

Liam


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