Jonathan of course means that the two lesser ways of the three ways of
writing parsers can automatically be generated.
Real parsers are written as recursive-descent parsers (1).
Best regards
Michael
(1) With reference to Niklaus Wirth.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: ; 'Jonathan Borden';
;
> 'Mike Champion';
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSLT and XQuery
>
> At 05:38 PM 1/8/2002 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> >(Incidentally the common XML source represents the grammatical
> productions
> >in such a way that a JavaCC parser can be automatically generated
using
> an
> >XSLT stylesheet, and this JavaCC parser has been used to test the
> examples
> >in both documents).
>
> Not only that, a Lex and Yacc parser is also generated, so we know
this
> grammar can be used with both approaches to parsing.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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