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   scooter.phd@gmail.com to Cox.Ja...@gmail.com   
   Re: (E)BNF Grammar to XML for LALR(1) pa   
   17 Feb 08 01:38:41   
   
   On Jan 14, 2:28 pm, Cox.Ja...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > I figured the most expeditious route to get a working parser would be   
   > to write my own, but I am not having fun manually generating the parse   
   > tables. In this light, are there any tools which will examine a   
   > grammar and spit out the parse table in XML so I can generate code   
   > based on that?   
      
   XML? Parse table in XML? I can see expressing the grammar in XML,   
   perhaps, although that'd be the most loquacious looking description of   
   a grammar. But the parse table in XML?   
      
   Maybe I'm missing something.   
      
   -scooter   
   [It sorta kinda makes sense if you had a family of parse table generators   
   feeding into a family of parsers, but given how tightly the table format   
   has to be tied to the parser, it does seem like a wee bit of overkill,   
   doesn't it? -John]   
      
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