Re: XML

Kyle R. Rose (krose nospam at theory.lcs.mit.edu)
09 Mar 1999 14:27:12 -0500

> On second thought, that's not too bad of an idea. You could supply a
> reference library (for _everyone_, not just the unix-heads in the
> crowd) that used a standardized API and provided a precoded parser.

Exactly. No one was suggesting that everyone write a parser. You
could just ask the library for the fields you want, and it will parse
those fields out for you.

Kyle

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