Aug. 21, 2002
4:46 p.m.
aahz wrote:
Ah. Here we see one of the little drawbacks of not finishing my CS degree. ;-) Can someone suggest a good simple reference on the distinctions between parsing / lexing / tokenizing
start here: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=parser
particularly in the context of general string processing (e.g. XML) rather than the arcane art of compiler technology?
words tend to mean slightly different things in the XML universe, so I'll leave that to the XML experts. </F>