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

by smls (Friar)
on Jan 26, 2013 at 22:38 UTC ( [id://1015539]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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.

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Re^7: Is there a module for object-oriented substring handling/substitution?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 28, 2013 at 09:28 UTC

    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

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