[antlr-interest] Somewhat off topic: XML/XSD parser generators and processing

[Pete Forman]

At 2003-02-20 12:01 -0800, iank at bearcave.com wrote:
>   The parser architecture which seems most appropriate in this case
>   would not actually be an ANTLR style recursive decent parser, but
>   rather a YACC style state table driven parser.

I don't agree that YACC has advantages over ANTLR in this respect.  You 
could build solutions with either approach.  State tables or parsers could 
be built beforehand for known XSDs.  Then the application would read the 
doctype and choose the table/parser for the remainder of the document.

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