Re: Parsing methods

In message <4I/4x4uYOdXZ089yn@stack.urc.tue.nl>, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet w
rites:
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>In article <v0300780eae0923bca181@[205.149.180.135]>,
>Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> wrote:
>> straightforward -- what I'm looking for is how to parse the contents of a
>> tag: <ELEMENT attr1=abc attr2="def ghi" attr3="jkl" attr4=mno>.
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>Well, a simple algorithm to do this: Once you have found a "<"
>character, the name of the element is everything up to the first whitespace
>character or the ">" character.

I'm afraid this isn't quite the case.

For example:

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http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-sgml-lex/

The following examples contain no markup. They illustrate that a the <
and </ strings do not always signal markup.

< x > <324 </234>
<==> < b>
<%%%> <---> <...> <--->
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Dan

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 1996 17:40:07 UTC