On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:45:34AM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> Sounds to me like an application for these:
>
> Rob Pike, Structural Regular Expressions
> http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/87/3-se.ps.gz
That's part of the story, but again, I don't think it's sufficient. Don't
get me wrong; you can do a lot with hierarchical data using SRE's, but it
may not be sufficient. Then again, it may. It all depends on the problem
at hand.
As for Smart People, XML, Corporate IT, and all the rest.... It's really
true that sometimes you're handed things that you have no control over.
Sometimes you're forced to pick the lesser of two evils. Would you pick
XML or ASN.1 if those were the only two options? If the pointy-haired
powers that be are mandating one or the other and, ``neither'' isn't in
the range of possible solutions? Sometimes, it's not worth fighting those
battles....
- Dan C.
