Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com> wrote:

> That's why we spent so much time examining each change for backward
> compatibility.  When I'm not participating in online discussions ;-)
> I'm hacking code alongside this stuff.

But Rael, it breaks my regexp:

foreach {<item>(.*?)</item>} {
    <link>.*?</link>
    <title>.*?</title>
    etc.
}

Adding attributes, etc. breaks backwards-compatibility for those of us
without XML parsers. Of course, I could easily add in another .*? in the tag
to fix things, but it's still a problem.

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