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Re: Validation of complex content

• From: Edwin Dankert <edankert@gmail.com>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:35:57 +0100

Hello David,

> If you wanted to stick to pure xml solutions without using extensions to
> another language you could look at Dimitre Novatchev's LR parser
> generator written in Xpath.

Thank you very much for this, this looks very impressive and I will
definitely give it a try.

Kind regards,
Edwin

On 2 April 2012 10:56, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote:
> On 30/03/2012 13:35, Edwin Dankert wrote:
>>
>> The expression language is quite complex and cannot be represented by
>> a regular-expression. The syntax is however specified using EBNF and
>> only the syntax needs to be validated.
>
>
>
> If you wanted to stick to pure xml solutions without using extensions to
> another language you could look at Dimitre Novatchev's LR parser
> generator written in Xpath. I thought he had a blog entry describing it,
> but I didn't see that just now but here's an answer on stack overflow
> giving some description and pointers to the code (which is open source
> on sourceforge)
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3555211/steps-and-involvement-of-implementing-a-parser-in-net-and-in-this-case-xpath
>
> You could (in theory) use this to write an xpath validating your grammar
> and call that from, say, a schematron rule.
>
> David
>
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    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>