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So true. "It's XML, so it must easy to parse and manipulate" is such a naive, even misleading attitude. If what you do is take a byzantine, legacy-encrusted imp
by jfk13 4y ago
So true. "It's XML, so it must easy to parse and manipulate" is such a naive, even misleading attitude. If what you do is take a byzantine, legacy-encrusted implementation and just serialise its data strucures to an XML representation, very little has been gained.
[edit: but I will grant that almost anything is better than attempting to parse useful content from PDF.]
- sidewndr46 4y agoI had a CTO who told me that "anytime someone says something will be simple because it uses XML, just repeat what they said and use the word text instead of XML. Then tell me if it sounds smart."
- exikyut 4y ago*Uses regular expressions to parse binary XML* In fairness though this a really good point.