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About development: <br /> | |||
The OCT interface makes use of regular expressions for parsing the XML contents of OOXML, ODS and gnumeric formats. While frowned upon by XML gurus (see for example [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 here] for some amusing postings), using regexps is much faster than any current XML parser. But the trade-off is that regexps are fragile, esp. withregard to the order in which XML tags appear in XML nodes. <br /> | |||
Just for reassurance: to date we haven't seen any problems with the OCT interface for reading and writing regular data. | |||
[[Category:Octave Forge]] | [[Category:Octave Forge]] | ||