- From: Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:20:10 -0400
On 06/24/2010 11:04 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote: > If you mean "parsing" with regular expressions, then I think that's a bad practice and shouldn't be encouraged. Worldwide, regarding HTML, I'm sure there is 100 times more regular expression processing code than full-on lexing code. Most code that processes HTML is embedded in scripts, doing some small special-purpose operation. Those regular expressions aren't going away. Helping them break less is a noble cause. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100624/eb5fbcdb/attachment.pgp>
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