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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:26:28 +0100 Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > Oh? Our GuideXML to HTML conversion is thousands of lines of code... |
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> | Plain wrong, but you have always made it clear that you are not only |
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> | biased against XML for anything, but also very much XML challenged. |
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> Run a wc -l on guide.xsl sometime. Either wc is lying or that alone is |
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> thousands of lines of code. |
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You know how to count. Well done. |
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You still haven't got a fscking clue what you're counting, though. |
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BTW, 1525 is not thousands. |
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Remove all the html that surrounds the content, i.e. the top bar with logo and |
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menu, the left col with the menu and old news items, the right col with the |
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ads and you're left with less than a thousand lines. Then remove the blank |
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lines, comments and a bit of what I believe is dead wood but I know has |
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nothing to do with GuideXML, and what's left already does a lot more than |
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GuideXML to HTML transformation. |
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> | Don't worry, some are even worse than you are, worse enough to claim |
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> | that XML is hard to parse because "XML files from a programming |
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> | perspective require extra logic to parse. Compare the following key |
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> | value pair and xml tag pseudo parsing logic for configuration: |
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> | <tag1>entry</tag1> |
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> | Hit a >, tag1 as realized tag name, read until <, read ahead one to |
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> | ensure a closing slash, read until > to get the tag name, compare tag |
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> | name with previous tag name to see what tag it's closing. store value |
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> | attached to tag1." |
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> That is not parsing XML. That is parsing some arbitrary markup language |
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> you just invented. Please read the XML specification, note how complex |
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> some of the little used side features are, and then remember that a |
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> compliant XML parser has to implement **all** of them. |
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I did not invent that, I was quoting another dev. FYI, the quote is the bit |
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between the " characters. |
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