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Using Marpa's facilities for error reporting, a quickly written domain-specific language can, as of its first draft, have error reporting whose helpfulness and precision exceeds that of carefully hand-crafted production compilers. This post will show how, with an example.
Two techniques will be used. First and most basic, Marpa's knowledge of the po…
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This post is part of a series describing Marpa::R2::HTML, a configurable HTML parser. The last two posts described how to change the context and contents of the HTML elements, both new an…
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My last post introduced Marpa::R2::HTML, a configurable HTML parser. By editing a configuration file, the user can change the variant of HTML being parsed. The changes allowed…
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This post introduces an HTML parser which is both liberal and configurable. Currently available as a part of a Marpa::R2 developer's release on CPAN, the new Marpa::R2::HTML allows detailed configuration of new tags and respecification of the behavior of existing tags.
To show how a configurable HTML parser works, …
I blog about Perl, with a focus on parsing and Marpa, my parsing algorithm based on Jay Earley's.
