[XML-SIG] PCCTS in python: yapps.

[Henk Jansen]

Amit Patel has built a python recursive/decendent parser-generator modeled after PCCTS
(http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/Yapps/). I'm using this tool currently for a
simulation modeling language and it is very nice and easy to understand tool indeed
(mainly, because it's all Python: no segmentation faults, bus errors etc. -- by the
way, I found ANTLR very slow in creating the grammar).

Personally, I would like to see more PCCTS-like features added to Yapps:

- LL(k), k>1
- semantic predicates 
- ...

and maybe some critical parts written as compliled modules (which maybe
could be borrowed from PCCTS...?)

Hope this will help in finding a suitable XML/DOM parser-generator.

Henk.


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