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In article <eshaisg6indaqmicvoif0dtiunmjcoagd4@4...>, Steve Schafer <pandeng@t...> wrote: >>The grammar in the spec describes the language correctly, and the >>productions in question can be used directly with compiler-generators >>like yacc. > >That's simply not true. yacc generates parsers for LALR(1) grammars, >and the grammar in the XML spec is not LALR(1), unless, as I mentioned >earlier, you omit at least some of the regular expression-based >productions. That's why I said "the productions in question". The problem of context-dependent tokenisation is a more general one, affecting many productions. All the DTD keywords have this problem. Of course, with yacc and lex you can use "lexical tie-ins" to handle the context-dependent tokenisation. -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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