Paul Robinson <paul(_at_)iconoplex(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
It's a text string. It's de-limited with tags. Tags are text
surrounded by < and >. Sometimes they have /, " and = characters in
them that change the way to treat either the tag, or the data inside
the tag.
That's it.
No, it isn't. First, you've hardly done the content of tags justice -
you need to discuss proper nesting, the prolog, namespaces, quoting
rules, processing instructions, comments and so forth. Second, you
forgot character sets, entities (both kinds), and CDATA sections.
It's BECAUSE of the incredibly strict rules you have to
follow that it is easy to write tools that handle XML.
If you can't write something like the above in say 12-20 lines, plus
standard #include'ed files in C (stdio.h), perhaps you'd like to
consider hiring me as a consultant? :-)
Assuming you're not talking about natural C, not obfuscated C, I'd
like to see that 12 line XML parser.
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