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Re: Gag me with a blunt …
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:58:01 -0500
Tim Bray wrote:
> Note (although no processor other than Lark ever did this as
> far as I know) that if you want to build a DFA-based XML
> processor, you can use the trick of recognizing all the syntax
> characters with a 7-bit state table and a remarkably small
> amount of clever sidestepping is required to deal with all
> the non-ASCII characters.
Fair enough. But presumably you need a separate recognizer for
XML names.
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