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   Re: [xml-dev] XPattern Redux

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* Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@engrm.com> [2005-01-16 16:34]:
> * Kevin Jones <kjouk@yahoo.co.uk> [2005-01-15 08:18]:
> > On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:57, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm thinking something like creating a language that is richer
> > > that STXPath, and using it to compile a DFA that matches against
> > > a SAX stream, and triggering events when a pattern matches.
> 
> > You might also find xmltk.sourceforge.net an interesting 
> > read if you have not come across the work of Dan Suciu 
> > before.
> 
>     I hadn't. Thank you.
> 
>     Also, looking at Tom and Scala as implementation langauges. Tom
>     because it is a pattern matching language, Scala for the fancy
>     case statement, both because they are JVM targeted, and that's
>     where I'm working these days.
> 
>         http://tom.loria.fr/
> 
>         http://lampwww.epfl.ch/scala/
> 
>     Also, I'm interested in seeing what Terrence Parr is up to over
>     at ANTLR. He's working on generating DFA as bytecode.
> 
>         http://www.antlr.org/blog/antlr3/codegen.tml
> 
>     This is apart from a discussion of the XPattern language, which
>     ought to get going in a separate thread.
>     
>     I'll probably start out by doing some simple matching, as a
>     proof of concept, so that I'll know what I'm up against as the
>     language is specified. Any other input on DFA implementations is
>     welcome.

    Also, is this a bad idea?

--
Alan Gutierrez - alan@engrm.com




 

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