I really appreciate your comments and I really appreciate your time and effort to comment on my program. I have been using the spec. Especally since things have come to a point of more difficult problems when dealing with XML. Now looking at the spec, I could have sworn that it said both xml and XML were valid xml prolog markers. I was wrong. I cannot find it. Also, the DD. I could not find in my code at all. Now && is the & sign here in the spec. Also, I found a problem with the ">" if it is used either in the attribute content or the name of the attribute. You were correct. It will cause problems.

As for software development processes, I have used eXtreme programming in a production environment before (with Java rather than Perl). I liked the theory. I would like to try it again sometime but I will only try it with people that I already trust. I had personal problems with the the people whom I tried this theory. It ended in complete disaster. Now I know that personal problems were not really dealt with in the theory. I have a copy of eXtreme programming explained. Also, coming from a QA background the test before you code idea is a godsend. In any case, I do not take your comments personally. I am glad that you wrote them. I will take them under advisement. Like I said before this is a learning experience and I have learned much about the XML spec and how it is put together. This experience will now be wrapped up into a possibly new project that will be better than this one. Maybe one of these days I will have something to brag about ;). Again, I thank you very much for your comments.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: A Question on a homebrew XML parser by cyocum
in thread A Question on a homebrew XML parser by cyocum

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