Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most?

Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by pashariger on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:01PM (#33676428)

An xml parser.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by thehappypm on Saturday November 19, 2022 @08:42PM (#33677183)

Did you use regex?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by labria on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:14PM (#33677402)

Nah, that’s for HTML

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by pashariger on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:57AM (#33678939)

And... I also used another xml parsing library, because we "needed" our own. (context: first programming job at a startup in college)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? by dr_barnowl on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:26AM (#33703781)

I did a pull-stylee XML parser once.

In VB.

VB ..... 3

It didn't care (much) about well-formed documents.

You could mix it with snippets of RTF. We did. I used it to parse report templates out of hybrid RTF/XML files.

Not really morally evil though.

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