[cgiapp] [Fwd: Re: ValidateRM not PP]

[Michael Peters]

Lyle wrote:

> Anyone had any ideas for a Pure Perl FillinForm replacement? At the 
> moment I'm thinking of a simple regexp based alternative???

Please, please don't do that! HTML is a complicated language and any regular expressions you come up 
with will fail on real world code. Trying to identify and change the properties of HTML form 
elements would be tricky enough, but what about things like
   + Javascript code which has HTML in strings (very common in DHTML apps)
   + HTML comments?
   + targetting specific forms?

Dealing with HTML requires a parser. Anything else won't make people happy.

On a side note, get a hosting provider that gives you a compiler, gee wiz!

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP