Re^2: Convert backslash to slash using XML parsing

[Aighearach]

THere must be more to it than that, presumably the books contain other, non-url backslashes also.

[Taulmarill]

yea ok, that may be. but why XML?!?
if i wanted to be clean i would use HTML::Parser.

[j.goor]

I proposed XML parsing because it would solve my problem on one hand and it is a nice way to solve a 'real world problem' on the other hand.
Indeed using 'tr' would convert *all* '\', but I only want to convert *links*.
HTML::Parser sounds usable. I'll take a look at it. In the mean time, don't hesitate to reply furthermore since I hope someone will give me a snippet of XML parsing.. :-) This would make a great start for me to get along

[Anonymous Monk]

Since the books are published in what would be valid HTML 4 if it had a document type declaration for each document, an XML parser unfortunately won't get you anywhere. XML parsers by definition function only on XML, not on tag soup.

If you still want to go that way, maybe upgrading the documents to XHTML with tidy works.