@kdfrawg It's a couple of lint/sanity tools for XML and HTML sources that have to make in-place changes to the documents. You'd think that'd be simple but it isn't. Part of what I use now is an ugly mess of regex and sed but this, naturally, restricts me to making those changes on a Linux box or a Mac with macports installed. I spend most of my time on a Windows box these days. *Note: It's possible under windows too but GnuWin makes my skin crawl. Has ever since an early release played good citizen and

@kdfrawg It's a couple of lint/sanity tools for XML and HTML sources that have to make in-place changes to the documents.

You'd think that'd be simple but it isn't.

Part of what I use now is an ugly mess of regex and sed but this, naturally, restricts me to making those changes on a Linux box or a Mac with macports installed. I spend most of my time on a Windows box these days.

Note: It's possible under windows too but GnuWin makes my skin crawl. Has ever since an early release played good citizen and wiped my temp folder on exit….Problem was, the default setting for /tmp was C:\…I kid you not. I was not amused.

Also…sed?!

What was I thinking?!

2017-04-03T11:58:30Z