Best way to import XML Files

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Jun 17 08:21:28 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:10:47AM -0400, George Simon, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> This is Windows.

Perhaps you mistake my point.  If you ever put together something that kept
track of technical support issues, for instance, then even if you have the
program doing the work on Windows, the -data- is still handled in the way
you specify it.  

Even though the code would never (obviously) be executed, if someone put
in even a one-line snippet that illustrated a problem or a fix, then your
parsing is shot.

If you're going to come up with your own way of parsing data, you should
at least do the basis of it robustly, even if the specifics need to be
rewritten from DTD to DTD.  And I'm saying that depending on a delimiter
like that is not robust.  I've followed about half the thread, maybe more,
but not all of it.  Surely you're not considering putting a separate
delimiter between XML tags themselves just to be able to use import, are
you?  That's not even considered a well-structured document, if that's what
we're talking about.

mark->
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