- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:02:40 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Dan Brickley wrote: > > Have you considered defining the parser behaviour in terms of XML > concepts? What would that mean? Could you give an example of what that would look like? > If you do get to the test suite stage, there'll be need for some > concrete syntax presumably, to express test outputs in? The output of the parser is a DOM, so the natural form to use as an output concrete syntax is simply a serialised DOM (e.g. an XML file). > GRDDL could then say "for HTML-ish bytestreams, feed them to the WHATWG > algorithm to get XML, and feed that XML to normal GRDDL algorithm to get > RDF"... I'm with you up to the step where the output is XML, but I fail to see how the next step is something WHATWG would be interested in. Could you expand on this? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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