[Chicago] sgmlparser problem

Martin Maney maney at two14.net
Tue Dec 12 13:37:07 CET 2006


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:34:20PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> Yea that is one solution. It does work, but instead of skipping bad html 
> i am fixing it and then trashing it. It seems kind of odd.

Nah, it's a common technique: you turn the original problem into a
related problem to which there is a known solution, and Bob's your
uncle.  Conservation of programmer time at the expense of plentiful CPU
cycles - of course there are cases where that's not a win, but this
doesn't appear to be one of them.

-- 
I do not believe that a paradigm completely replaces previous paradigms ...
Instead, each programming paradigm adds to what worked previously,
and as a paradigm matures, it is increasingly integrated with previous
paradigms.  -- Bjarne Stroustrup


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