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> The subject line of this message, though, suggests pretty strongly that
> some folks see semantics as a way out of a syntactic trap. I believe
> those folks are fooling themselves at best.
I've written a *lot* of parsers in my career. Tweaking semantics in aid of
syntactic problems and vice versa is a class of technique I've used
innumerable times. In fact, many of these techniques are well known and old
hat. My experience, and that of many others in the field is shows practical
results that belies any notion of "fooling". I'm sorry if your experience is
different.
I guess I'll just go on fooling myself, since it seems so helpful to my
productivity.
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Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com
Gems From the [Python/XML] Archives - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/py-xm
l.html
Introducing N-Triples - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-thi
nk17/index.html
Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerw
orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html
EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html
The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238
Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/develo
perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html
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