Re: [xml] How can i do regexp operation?

[kalyanasundaram <s kalyanasundaram gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 14:59 -0400, Jason Viers wrote:
> kalyanasundaram wrote:
> > I have a node like this
> > <node val="S 100,164.44 D -199> 
> > even more complex i have it.
>
> Whoever designed that xml structure did a poor job and completely 
> avoided the benefit of xml.  It _should_ look something like
> <node type="s" val1="100" val2="164.44"..... to allow the XML library to 
> handle parsing the structre.  That's what it's for.
>
> But the separation between your values is not part of the xml, it's all 
> part of the attribute value.  What you have is a non-xml chunk of data 
> that you need to parse.  A separate regex library might be able to help, 
> but it's nothing that libxml should be expected to provide.

Yeh, you may be right. I was trying to edit the SVG files. So the data
is basically a <path>. I tried very much, and thought of check my luck.
Going to check python SVG bindings.