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- From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:38:39 +0200
>>>>> Richard Lanyon <rgl@decisionsoft.com>:
> a) XML frees us from writing new parsers to accompany every new
> structure.
No it doesn't. Not with the level of the current tools.
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.
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