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Re: [Omaha.pm] get_xpath via Perl, Template Toolkit (XML::Twig)



On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Sean Baker wrote:
foreach my $d ($twig->get_xpath('b/c[@jay="rules" and @justin="rules too"]/d')) {

Does anyone else find that incredibly ugly?  Maybe it's just me +
Friday.

What? My errant line wraps because I keep forgetting that Thunderbird enjoys torturing me? :)

Oh, you probably meant the xpath syntax. Ya, the syntax overlap between Perl and xpath attributes is pretty painful.

I haven't seen anything I like better, though. I have yet to talk to anyone in any language that is in love with their XML processing syntax...

j