[XML-SIG] 4XPath: parsing Unicode string

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@home.com
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:08:11 -0500


What about John Aycock's SPARK approach?  Maybe it could form the basis
for a new set of scanner/parsers?  It's at

http://www.csr.uvic.ca/~aycock/python/content.html

Cheers,

Tom Passin

<uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> wrote

>  ...
> Or does anyone out there have _any_ other ideas?  We're pretty much at
the end
> of the tether with FLEX and Bison for other problems (concurrency),
but we're
> not coming up with other good parsing solutions.  We've looked at most
of the
> Python tools available at the Vaults of Parnassus, and they don't
really cut
> it.  We could probably do it with re and some glue code to handle the
> non-regular portions of XPath, but this would also be a huge task.
>
> Any help or ideas are appreciated.
>