| Robert Page IV 2004-09-12, 8:55 pm |
| Considering I am not parsing HTML, I am actually trying to 'generate'
the text formatting
I want in a HTML page, there is no need for a HTMl parser that I see.
Robert
On Sep 9, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Chris Devers wrote:
>
> Maybe.
>
> The reason for my remark is that I have noticed that quite a few Perl
> programmers start yelling "HTML::Parser" or "XML::Parser" etc. as soon
> as they get sight of a couple of angle brackets. Personally I have
> never had a reason to consider the use of such a module, and I don't
> question that it's advisable to use them when you are about to parse a
> web page that you have picked up from the web. However, there are
> cases with more trivial tasks where I have a feeling that you might
> overdo it by using a parsing module. (Provided, of course, that you
> know regular expressions well enough.)
>
> And in this case there wasn't even a parsing problem involved. ;-)
>
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