Charles,
| So, now we are back in the present. The story is nearly at its end. The
| developer just needs some sleep (and the love of a good women), and all
will
| be right with the world.
Can't really help you on either of those... Other then wishing you luck in
those areas...
This question & the question on "Easiest way to generate XML in VB.NET" post
reminds me of Item #29 "Always Use a Parser" from Elliotte Rusty Harold's
book "Effective XML - 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML" from Addison
Wesley lists a number of other reasons to use a parser. Although Item #29 is
largely reading, I find the topic apropos to writing also. Hence my
suggestion, without realizing the connection, of using either the SgmlReader
or XHTML...
Hope this helps
Jay
"Charles Law" <bl***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:en**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| Hi Jay
|
| You won't be surprised to hear that this is a continuing theme.
|
| Once upon a time, there was RTF, but it was slow, and the people wept, for
| it was very, very slow, and they got very, very bored waiting.
|
| So, the developer chappie considered the many possible alternatives, and
| decided to simplify the whole thing by invoking the minor devil known as
the
| listview. But the users came back and said, "but we liked the rich text
box,
| because it had colours and stuff".
|
| And the developer said, "you have colours, what are you complaining about;
| the listview is every bit as colourful, and quicker to boot, it just
doesn't
| retain the colours when you save and reload".
|
| And then he added, "you are lucky to have anything at all, so just be
| grateful", but he went away thinking that he had somehow done the users a
| disservice.
|
| So, anyway, he came up with the idea of saving the output as html, so that
| it could be opened by the great God Microsoft Word; oh, and some browser
| thingy called IE.
|
| But then there was the dilemma: how to load it back into the application
| with colour, as the users had become used to. And it was then that Regular
| Expression came to the developer one night in a dream. But he knew little
of
| the Regular Expression, so he sought help from the great developers in the
| sky. And they said, try this ... no, try this ... and he tried it, and it
| worked; sought of.
|
| But by this time, the developer had grown weary, and also his calculating
| machine had become defective because he had done some re-installing and it
| had mucked up his debugger, and it took him a day-and-a-half to put it
| right. So, by Sunday evening he was really very weary indeed, and then
some.
|
| Finally, a door opened, and a bright light shone in. The developer tried
| some stuff, and it worked. He wrote a set of classes to serialise and
| de-serialise an html class, which looked remarkably like real html, which
is
| apparently something called xhtml.
|
|
| So, now we are back in the present. The story is nearly at its end. The
| developer just needs some sleep (and the love of a good women), and all
will
| be right with the world.
|
| And so, to sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub.
|
| Charles
|
|
| "Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <Ja************@msn.com> wrote in message
| news:e9**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| > Charles,
| > | but I could write it as XML, but use HTML tags.
| >
| > That would be XHTML ;-)
| >
| > If you are writing the files, then this may be the way to go.
| >
| > Hope this helps
| > Jay
| >
| > "Charles Law" <bl***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
| > news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > | Hi Dave
| > |
| > | Actually, you have hit on something there. I write the file in the
first
| > | place as HTML, but I could write it as XML, but use HTML tags. I would
| > then
| > | have the right class structure to read it back in. Marvellous. It pays
| > to
| > | look outside the box.
| > |
| > | Thanks.
| > |
| > | Charles
| > |
| > |
| > | "Dave" <NO*********@dotcomdatasolutions.com> wrote in message
| > | news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > | >> I have a well structured file
| > | >
| > | > If you can guarantee that the file will always be well-formed, you
can
| > use
| > | > System.Xml namespace classes to do the parsing for you. i.e.
XmlReader
| > /
| > | > XmlWriter / XmlDocument or any of the XPath
readers/writers/document.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Dave Sexton
| > | >
dave@www..jwaonline..com
| > |
| >
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| > | > "Charles Law" <bl***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
| > | > news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| > | >> Does anyone have a regex pattern to parse HTML from a stream?
| > | >>
| > | >> I have a well structured file, where each line is of the form
| > | >>
| > | >> <sometag someattribute='attr'>text</sometag>
| > | >>
| > | >> for example
| > | >>
| > | >> <SPAN CLASS='myclass'>A bit of text</SPAN>, or
| > | >> Just some text, without tags
| > | >>
| > | >> What I would like to be able to do is parse each line so that I get
| > an
| > | >> array like this
| > | >>
| > | >> SPAN
| > | >> CLASS
| > | >> myclass
| > | >> A bit of text
| > | >>
| > | >> or
| > | >>
| > | >> Just some text, without tags
| > | >>
| > | >> The array bit should follow, but I don't profess to be a regex
expert
| > (or
| > | >> any kind of expert for that matter). Can anyone help with a
suitable
| > | >> pattern?
| > | >>
| > | >> TIA
| > | >>
| > | >> Charles
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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