• To: david.lyon@c...
• Subject: Re: Web Services/SOA (was RE: XML 2004 weblogitems?)
• From: Paul Downey <paul.downey@w...>
• Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:31:21 +0000
• Cc: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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david.lyon@c... wrote:

> only funny because I remember YACC from way back. No
> doubt it still exists. I remember that was one
> heck of a frustrating program.

oh it still exists, though i've moved onto using Parse::RecDescent
as a better mouse trap for writing ad-hoc parsers:
http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Parse-RecDescent-1.94/lib/Parse/RecDescent.pod

> and yet... some of these new tools have exactly the
> same frustration level in xml even now. I don't know
> why I think that, but it seems that way to me. Especially
> in Linux.

i guess it might be interesting to compare the shift-reduce
limitations of YACC with, say the UPA rule in W3C schema:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/ramankutty.html


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Paul Downey
http://blog.whatfettle.com

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