At 10:26 -0600 2000.08.13, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Chris Nandor writes:
>> While true, it is entirely irrelevant for most uses of XML that I've seen.
>
>Because people aren't able to use it for things for which it cannot be
>used, thus you cannot see those uses :-)  I've heard a lot of grumbling
>from people wanting to process shitloads of XML.  I believe Adam Turoff
>came into this camp.

Well, I've heard a lot of grumbling that a few people are grumbling that
they want to process shitloads of XML (which certainly is valid).  My only
point is that I don't think this problem is preventing most people from
most work with XML and Perl.  It still needs to be addressed, regardless,
of course.


>> > (2) there is only one XML parser for Perl, and it has limitations.
>> What are these limitations?
>
>It's based on expat and has all the limitations of expat.  In particular,
>it doesn't validate.

Yes, that's the only limitation I've heard; I was wondering if there are
any other significant ones.

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