Re^6: Is there a module for object-oriented substring handling/substitution?

[smls]

in reply to Re^5: Is there a module for object-oriented substring handling/substitution?
in thread Is there a module for object-oriented substring handling/substitution?

But then I could not guarantee that the output is exactly the same as the input outside of the specific values being updated.

DOM-tree<-->wiki-syntax is a one-to-many relationship, for example each of the following is a valid wiki-syntax representation of a table row containing 3 cells with the contents A, B, and C:

|-
| A || B || C

|-
| A
| B
| C

<tr>
  <td>A</td>
  <td>B</td>
  <td>C</td>
</tr>

Also, I doubt that writing a full-blown parser and serializer would result in less work and less code than a regex-based solutions supported by linked substrings.

[Anonymous Monk]

But then I could not guarantee that the output is exactly the same as the input outside of the specific values being updated.

:) Sure you could. While HTML DOM doesn't guarantee same representation, there is no reason your DOM couldn't -- hey, if PPI can do it, you can too :) whitespace can be significant if you make it so