[PLUG] Broken Script, Help Please

[Ben Koenig]

On Thursday, July 17th, 2025 at 8:57 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, Eldo Varghese wrote:
> 
> > I second the xmlstarlet approach, why bother creating one's own (crude)
> > parser when xml parsers already exist.
> 
> 
> Another vote for this approach! For anything other than a one-off
> operation, using an XML parser is the smart move.
> 
> Developers have spent untold labor years getting their browsers and
> parsing libraries to work with malformed html or xhtml. You're best
> off taking advantage of that work, even if it means a bit of a
> learning curve.
> 

XML parsers will also handle minor changes in the formatting of the source data. It looks like that's what happened here. In the long run a simply xml parser would prevent a lot of problems like this in the future.


-Ben