Dissillusioned about interoperability.

Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Mon Oct 11 13:20:01 BST 1999


Steinar Bang wrote:
> 
> We're replacing our old lisp-oid format, parsed with a PCCTS recursive
> descent parser, with XML, based on a C++ SAX wrapper over expat.
> 
> And the handwritten state machine logic of the DocumentHandler feels
> like a step back from the EBNF specification of our old format.

If this is a problem then why are you using an event-handler based tool
instead of a tree tool? Or if you would prefer something in-between,
what do you have in mind?

 Paul Prescod

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