nestable C/C++ XML parser?
Vilya Harvey
vilya at nag.co.uk
Tue Dec 7 18:17:00 GMT 1999
Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>
> * Lars Marius Garshol
> |
> | The only application I see for this sort of thing is to be able to
> | work around XML syntax rules,
>
> * Toby Speight
> |
> | I see a demand for parsing a document with SAX, but using some
> | start-tags to switch to building DOM (or DOM-like) objects, returning
> | to stream-oriented processing afterwards.
>
> Sure, I too see a need for this, and I've even implemented it.
> However, this is something completely different from doing parsing on
> behalf of the parser. Parsing is turning a stream of bytes (or
> characters) into something higher-level, but this is not what you are
> talking about.
Not exactly right. Parsing deals with a sequence of *tokens*; in the
programming world these tokens are usually the result of lexical analysis
of a sequence of characters, but they don't *have* to be. The tokens in
question could be XML entities, for example...
> As far as I understood him, the original poster wanted to do the
> parsing (that is, the reading and interpretation of bytes/chars) on
> behalf of expat.
I think there has been some miscommunication due to the fact that there
are really two distinct levels of parsing that can take place with XML.
There is the parsing which turns a sequence of characters in some encoding
into a particular XML entity or sequence of entities; and then there is
the parsing which interprets a sequence of XML tokens to derive some
application- or domain-specific meaning. I suspect it may have been the
second type of parsing that the original poster was referring to.
Bye,
Vil.
(Not speaking for my employer.)
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