perl regex modifiers

[Mark Brownell]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:28  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> Remember, that is a slightly different pattern recognizer.  It will 
> not work (as expected or hoped) with < in between as might be the case 
> in a comparison expression or with enclosed elements.
>
> Dar

Yes I can see that. It will also not work for MTML because a part of 
one element tag set can begin inside of another element tag set and end 
outside of it in MTML. This was a primary issue while defending off XML 
innovators several years ago when I started experimenting with it. The 
PNLP handler is not effected by this problem, and at this point it is 
still the fastest choice. Where I see an advantage is in some of MTML's 
multimedia handling tag sets that could be easier to script with 
perlRegEx.

Mark
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