Emacs Lisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links

[Dan Espen]

Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com> writes:

> 〈Emacs Lisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links〉
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_vs_perl_validate_links.html
>
> a comparison of 2 scripts.
>
> lots code, so i won't paste plain text version here.
>
> i have some comments at the bottom. Excerpt:
>
> ------------------
>
> «One thing interesting is to compare the approaches in perl and emacs
> lisp.»
>
> «For our case, regex is not powerful enough to deal with the problem
> by itself, due to the nested nature of html. This is why, in my perl
> code, i split the file by < into segments first, then, use regex to
> deal with now the non-nested segment. This will break if you have <a
> title="x < href=z" href="math.html">math</a>. This cannot be worked
> around unless you really start to write a real parser.»
>
> «The elisp here is more powerful, not because of any lisp features,
> but because emacs's buffer datatype. You can think of it as a
> glorified string datatype, that you can move a cursor back and forth,
> or use regex to search forward or backward, or save cursor positions
> (index) and grab parts of text for further analysis.»
>
> ------------------
>
> If you are a perl coder, and disagree, let me know your opinion.
> (showing working code is very welcome) My comment about perl there
> applies to python too. (python code welcome too.)

Interesting.

Perl, Python, and Lisp have real HTML parsers available.
I've used the ones for Perl and Python.

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Dan Espen