In this mini-series I look at building a minimally functional XML parser. Last time I used Haskell’s Parsec library. This time use Perl and the Regexp::Grammars to build an analogous XML parser.Cartoon from xkcd I recently attended Damian Conway’s underst …

I’ve just returned from a fantastic Understanding Regular Expressions tutorial given by Damian Conway for FLOSS UK (formerly the UK UNIX Users Group). Damian is a bit of a legend in the Perl community having won the Larry Wall award 3 times, written Perl Best Practices and spent quite a few …