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> A thought that struck me (and probably struck many of you before me) is that > the event stream from a SAX parser is much like the token stream from a lexical > analyser, like 'lex'. This made me wonder what the equivalent to 'yacc' would > be in this picture; an application that help you construct the logic for dealing > with event streams. Is there such an application? FOP (and I suspect a lot of XML applications) takes SAX events and builds a tree structure out of objects that belong to a class depending on the element type or attribute. This tree building is handled through a largely generic builder and the mappings from element and attribute name to class name are provided to the builder at run-time. In the case of attributes (and perhaps eventually elements), the actual classes themselves are generated from XML schemas. I don't know if it is the equivalent of "yacc" but it seems to be a fairly generic way of dealing with event streams that still allows application-specific tailoring. James Tauber xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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