[PYTHON DOC-SIG] SGML-Tools

[Ka-Ping Yee]

When you mentioned your desire to create a more general and robust
implementation of SGMLParser, i thought, "It might be good to write
the lexical analyzer in C for speed, or even the whole parser as a
compiled module."

Fred Drake wrote:
> Another
> possibility would be to write another SGMLParser implementation around
> nsgmls output; this keeps the document-type stuff similar to what we
> have now while allowing substantial SGML to be used as needed.

That's kind of what i had in mind when i mentioned nsgmls output.

But putting together these two ideas, why not a Python interface
to sgmls itself?  James Clark has an API for SP, and as far as i
know the source code is freely available.  Import that as a module,
and you have a super-fast, robust, well-tested SGML parser to play
with from your Python script.  (The back-ends for various output
formats could then be Python scripts.)

Just a thought...


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