Re: [PLUG] XML, text, and the development of unix

[Alex Birch <kes@lifesabirch.org>]

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> That's a pretty poor example, since it involves you simply not
> knowing the syntax of the language. It's just as easy (if not
> easier, since there's way more syntax to know) to make that same
> mistake with XML.

Please show me an example where seeing in XML where there is a 
difference between a tab or a space? Or that where I could copy 
something from a book where it works-- having look exactly the same-- 
but have it not work with Ant.

With XML at least I can SEE the difference.

> > After this discussion I have thought about starting x utilities for xml.
>
>
> That sounds like an interesting idea.

> Shouldn't it really be block-centric (as in, between close and open
> tags of the same type), since newlines aren't meaningful in XML?
> If so, you'll also need a way to specify how many blocks out from
> the matched text you'd like to see data (this shouldn't be hard;
> default to 1, -N for more; functionality similar to GNU grep's -C,
> -A, and -B).

What I was thinking is just a thin wrapper and know when you're inside a 
 tag. Then just return the tag.

I said line-centric; I meant tag-centric.

What other traditional tools would be nice? xsed? xgrep?

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