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Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text?

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text?
Date 2016-02-21 11:39 +0100
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <1469853.zbu1769jS1@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes: 
>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> I though you were doing something like markdown where the markup is made
>>> very simple indeed, but your use-case may oblige you to use a very much
>>> more expressive markup.  Much as I dislike it, XML has much to offer
>>> when doing this sort of thing.
>> And one does _not_ parse it with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions as
>> you suggested before, but with an XML *parser* like libxml, which is
>> supported by PHP.
> 
> When I suggest XML, I advised using an established XML processor.  In
> fact it's the existing tools that I've stressed as being the main reason
> to consider XML.  I'm sure James is not confused on this point, but you
> may not have been following the whole thread.

No, *you* have not been following.  One should *always* prefer a *parser* 
over plain application of regular expressions with non-regular languages
to be parsed.

-- 
PointedEars
Zend Certified PHP Engineer 
<http://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND024953> | Twitter: @PointedEars2
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Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 12:47 +0000
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-18 15:52 +0100
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:28 +0000
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-18 14:56 +0000
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 22:14 +0100
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-18 21:45 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 23:09 +0100
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 01:15 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-19 02:45 +0100
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 12:03 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-02-19 12:17 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-02-19 14:18 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 14:02 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 20:31 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 01:39 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:33 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 12:53 +0000
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:29 +0000
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 20:32 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-18 10:43 -0500
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:51 +0000
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 20:08 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 21:22 +0100
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 23:40 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:39 +0100
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 13:09 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 20:24 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 22:35 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 08:37 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 10:55 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 13:25 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-20 17:50 -0500
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 08:49 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 10:05 -0500
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-20 17:45 -0500
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 09:01 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:46 +0100
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 12:36 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 14:39 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 13:40 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 14:46 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 14:57 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 10:10 -0500
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 17:50 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 14:08 -0500
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-21 18:35 +0100
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 17:55 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-22 16:38 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 22:06 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-27 15:58 +1300

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