Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Parsing for XML Developers

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

Hi Folks,

Parsing is cool!

Parsing is about taking a flat (linear) structure, such as this flat list of Book data:

<Books>
<Title>Parsing Techniques</Title>
<Author>Dick Grune</Author>
<Author> Ceriel J.H. Jacobs</Author>
<Date>2007</Date>
<ISBN>978-0-387-20248-8</ISBN>
<Publisher>Springer</Publisher>
<Title>Introduction to Graph Theory</Title>
<Author>Richard J. Trudeau</Author>
<Date>1993</Date>
<ISBN>0-486-67870-9</ISBN>
<Publisher>Dover Publications</Publisher>
<Title>Introduction to Formal Languages</Title>
<Author>Gyorgy E. Revesz</Author>
<Date>2012</Date>
<ISBN>0-486-66697-2</ISBN>
<Publisher>Dover Publications</Publisher>
</Books>

And adding structure to it:

<Books>
<Book>
<Title>Parsing Techniques</Title>
<Authors>
<Author>Dick Grune</Author>
<Author> Ceriel J.H. Jacobs</Author>
</Authors>
<Date>2007</Date>
<ISBN>978-0-387-20248-8</ISBN>
<Publisher>Springer</Publisher>
</Book>
<Book>
<Title>Introduction to Graph Theory</Title>
<Authors>
<Author>Richard J. Trudeau</Author>
</Authors>
<Date>1993</Date>
<ISBN>0-486-67870-9</ISBN>
<Publisher>Dover Publications</Publisher>
</Book>
<Book>
<Title>Introduction to Formal Languages</Title>
<Authors>
<Author>Gyorgy E. Revesz</Author>
</Authors>
<Date>2012</Date>
<ISBN>0-486-66697-2</ISBN>
<Publisher>Dover Publications</Publisher>
</Book>
</Books>

you sure about that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing

I wrote a short tutorial on parsing. I use XML in the examples, although parsing can be used to structure many things besides XML.

Here is my tutorial:

http://www.xfront.com/parsing-techniques/bottom-up-parser/Parsing-for-XML-Developers.pptx

hmmmmmm given the dubious definition that qualifies as clickbait......but I am going to resist.