Re: [xsl] library for parsing RTF

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Subject: Re: library for parsing RTF
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:12:31 +0100

there is no library and it is not required: since RTF is a textual format, you can use XSLT 2.0 regexp capabilities to parse RTF

For a language as rich as RTF, regular expressions are not going to get you all that far: they are probably only suitable for writing the lexical analyzer (or tokenizer).

Dimitre Novatchev seems to be the expert on writing parsers in XSLT. Perhaps his next project could be a parser-generator (aka compiler-compiler) - a program that takes a BNF description of the grammar you want to parse, and generates an XSLT stylesheet/library to do the parsing.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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Re: library for parsing RTF, (continued)
- Andriy Gerasika - 27 Jun 2010 20:53:39 -0000
  - Stefan Krause - 27 Jun 2010 21:01:50 -0000
    - Andriy Gerasika - 27 Jun 2010 21:45:49 -0000
    - Emmanuel Bégué - 30 Jun 2010 07:29:47 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 27 Jun 2010 21:13:00 -0000 <=
    - Dimitre Novatchev - 27 Jun 2010 21:55:39 -0000
    - Andriy Gerasika - 27 Jun 2010 23:07:52 -0000
    - Kevin Grover - 29 Jun 2010 19:51:24 -0000
    - Maurice Mengel - 30 Jun 2010 07:02:15 -0000

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