One task that has come up quite a lot as I’m working with a lot of XML files (mostly DITA content) is I need a way to create a list of all the XML files within a folder. More than not, I want this list to be an XML file, too. There’s really no folder-… Continue reading Make a Folder Manifest for XML Files
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Regular Expressions versus XSLT
Last week I came across an epic rant within a forum thread1 about why using regular expressions for parsing XML is a bad idea. The <center> cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. At first, I… Continue reading Regular Expressions versus XSLT