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[xsl] Are XPath expressions parsed using compiler parsing techniques?

2022-05-08 16:19:55
Hi Folks,

I dug out my old compiler "Dragon book" and started rereading it. 

Chapter 1 lists some of the tools that employ compiler techniques. This one 
caught my attention:

Query interpreters: A query interpreter translates a predicate containing 
relational and boolean operators into commands to search a database of records 
satisfying that predicate.

An XPath expression is a query. Not against a database, but against an XML 
document. Are XPath expressions parsed using compiler parsing algorithms? Is a 
syntax tree constructed for an XPath expression? Is the syntax tree traversed?

/Roger 
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