Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Weblog-XML... plus regexps?

Author:Michal Wallace
Posted:2/13/1999; 7:10:16 PM
Topic:XML for weblogs
Msg #:2892 (In response to 2869)
Prev/Next:2891 / 2893

Jorn said: This means regexps, though, yes? And XML hadn't ventured into that territory, last I looked, so I'd expect the URL needs to be embedded in an

Not at all. With this kind of XML document, the data is all represented as a tree. So if one little branch of that tree is called "url", and it contains a URL, you can just say, 'go get me the contents of that branch and stick in in an HTML (You COULD do it with a regexp, but that defeats the whole purpose of using XML)

-michal



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