I never said you needed to do anything of the sort.

As for the specials, prior to you isolating the example of needing them in those rare special cases, I had never really paid them much attention or even felt any need to. The e-commerce site didn't need to output aXML (or perl code), neither did the auctions site, or the forum system.

I find it rather bizarre your so fixated with them, since they are such a rarely needed thing in real world applications.

However having said that I do recognise that for the solution to be absolutely complete that there needs to be a standardised solution to this, such that PerlNights will be able to input, store and output absolutely any string, even strings containing the specials themselves.

When I'm completely happy that I have an infallable solution to it I will document it properly and you will have a static final answer, until then and until the new version is finished complete with said solution, whatever is said about it is subject to change if or when a fault is found, or even if I change my mind about it. (my perogative, my language)

Note; the problem and solution exist at the level of the perl and the plugins, not at the level of the aXML document, and any criticism that is levelled along these lines is a criticism of the perl implementation of aXML and not of aXML itself.

The version I have at the moment is capable of outputting long and complex aXML strings correctly, and even source highlighting them (wanna see a screen shot?). But when it comes to outputting Perl code, specifically, and only, Perl code which uses the specials, it breaks and I'm currently working on that issue, rare as it is, because I want the implementation to be 100% perfect, not merely 99.99999% perfect.

So unless your going to tell me that it is impossible to solve the problem, (ie, that Perl itself cannot do it) then perhaps it would be more useful to focus on something else until I have fully solved it? If you are going to tell me it's impossible, then I'm sorry but I'm not just going to take your word for it until I have fully exhausted every trick I can think of to do so. (such is my faith in Larry)

If I do find out it's totally impossible, the ketchup bottle will be fetched from the fridge, and I will be offline for a while with a severe stomach ache.

In reply to Re^24: Is an aXML compiler possible? by Logicus
in thread Is an aXML compiler possible? by Logicus

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