On 04/08/2013 08:50 AM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> On 4/8/13 8:10 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Are there any XML parsers that are more powerful than a deterministic
>> pushdown automata?
>>
>> Why are XML parsers written as libraries rather than as parser
>> generators?
>
> I have seen at least one XML parser generator, though I think it was
> at XTech long long ago. They've also come up in conversation about
> ASN.1, but I suspect that was more on the ASN.1 side than the XML side.
>
> Thanks,
I (and I think some others) wrote MicroXML parsers using parser
generators, like JavaCC. I haven't tried that with XML, so I'm not
sure, but I think that the DTD and entity handling is difficult to do
with classic parser generators. Also you will tend to get better
performance from a hand-written parser.
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Michael Sokolov
Senior Architect
Safari Books Online
