parsing

The Axes of Parsing: I

Part One of a series on the theory and praxis of parsing and lexical analysis. Here, we cover the basic theory of formal languages and explain the fundamental concept of grammars. My apologies to...

By , 19th August 2008 In:

Higher Order Primitives in PHP (and more...)

Thanks again to Harry, I stumbled across two fascinating projects that tackle a particular fundamental problem in PHP5. The ambition of metaphp is to take over the world, and that's actually not such...

By , 21st January 2006 In:

Extracting Tabular Data from HTML Tables

Despite having been a significant catalyst for the success of the world-wide-web, use of the humble 'ol <table> has been drived to the backroads with current conventions...

By , 10th September 2004 In:

Links

➔ CSS Formatter and Optimiser/Optimizer

➔ Javascript RDF Parser

➔ narcissus - javascript in javascript

➔ The Lexical Semantics of a Machine Translation Interlingua

➔ Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?

➔ User Friendly Recoding of Legacy Text in RTF/MIF

➔ Why can't Firefox parse HTML?

➔ Packrat Parsing and Parsing Expression Grammars

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