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uche.ogbuji@f... (Uche Ogbuji) writes: >> The subject line of this message, though, suggests pretty strongly >> that some folks see semantics as a way out of a syntactic trap. I >> believe those folks are fooling themselves at best. > >I've written a *lot* of parsers in my career. Tweaking semantics in >aid of syntactic problems and vice versa is a class of technique I've >used innumerable times. In fact, many of these techniques are well >known and old hat. My experience, and that of many others in the >field is shows practical results that belies any notion of "fooling". >I'm sorry if your experience is different. Are we talking about the same thing? In the case of XML 1.0 syntax/semantics and parsers, what you say reflects my own experience. On the other hand, much of this conversation - starting from Roger's article - is about interpretation that seems way above 'parsing' to me. Maybe there are two or more meanings for that word, each appropriate in its own context. >I guess I'll just go on fooling myself, since it seems so helpful to >my productivity. If it works for you, great. Just don't try to standardize that on me. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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