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Hello Michael, Can you recommend some good tutorial on it? I want to take a look at it and use it. thanks, Yang Quoting Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>: >> >> I want to ask one question about covering text to xml >> file. Is there any way to attach a schema to a text document >> and parse it into xml according the rules defined in the >> schema? Can I find such kind a tool, otherwise I plan to >> write one myself. Please give me some references. Thanks. >> > > You can use a compiler-compiler such as JavaCC or Yacc to define the grammar > for the text file, and to generate a parser in the appropriate language; by > defining appropriate events for the parser you can then cause the output to > be XML. > > However, most text files containing data have a syntax that can be described > using regular expressions, and if this is this case it's probably more > convenient to use the XSLT 2.0 functions unparsed-text() and > analyze-string() to read and parse the text. > > Regards, > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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