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: I'm tempted to say let the AWK example stand with comments about how it is scraping the XML and not properly parsing it; disappointingly many languages have to do it that way anyway and it is a common (if nasty) technique. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 13:25, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
::This task should definitely require stuctured XML parsing. We already have [[Web Scraping]] for more ad-hoc methods. To aid this, I would change the XML to something less trivial. --[[User:IanOsgood|IanOsgood]] 19:04, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
:::I added a <del>entity</del> numeric character reference, since XML processors in general need to be able to handle &amp; and the full character set. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 00:44, 2 June 2009 (UTC)