Then you'll have to implemented the small and simple table-sriven
parser in XSLT and will have to feed it the YACC-generated tables
(Rules, GoTo, ... etc), probably converted from C-array format into
xml.

However, this seems like a waste of time, because there is already the
dyn:evaluate() EXSLT extension function as well as saxon:evaluate().

This means that probably there are not going to be users for an XPath
parser written in XSLT.

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hello.

i want to parse XPaths in XSLT (specifically, XPath 2.0 in XSLT 2.0).
has anybody heard of an existing XPath 2.0 parser implemented in XSLT
2.0? or, on a more general note: is anybody aware of something like
lex/yacc or javacc for XSLT, so that you can generate parsers from a
given syntax definition? probably pretty hard in XSLT 1.0, but should
not be too hard in XSLT 2.0, i guess.

thanks and cheers,

erik wilde   tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
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