Re: atoms, molecules

["Anders W. Tell" <opensource@toolsmiths.se>]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

At 10:57 AM 4/19/01 +0200, Anders W. Tell wrote:
There is another mechanism which may be a part of a solution.
>I have ealier proposed to the XML schema group a mechanism where it is
>possible
>to handle "parsable encodings" such as XPath expressions and SVG paths in
>strings (attributes, etc.),
>called "microparsing".
>In these cases are regular expressions not really sufficient because of
>complex parsing rules.

Is 'microparsing' something readily defined with a declarative unpacking
mechanism?

Or does it bind more tightly to a particular processing environment?

Unfortunatly it is bound to a processing environment. Mainly because there
are to many
syntaxes which are not readily handled by "readable" regular expression
or other usable
declarative technologies.
The mircoparsing binding is just a named mapping to/from a string based
type and an equivalent XML schema.
>  
> Regular expressions don't solve every problem, but I find them attractive
> because of their relative independence from particular platforms and
> their
> inclusion in XML Schema.
Regular expresssion may be a declarative approach that an handle a number
of useful use cases.
But what is the result after applying one or more reqexps, a xml fragment
or... ?

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