On 3 Jul., 00:56, Joseph Kesselman <keshlam-nos...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Many good XML parsers exist. It sounds like you're going to need to do a
> fair amount of homework before constructing your own. Reinventing the
> wheel is probably not very useful unless you have a real interest in
> learning how parsers function.
>
> One standard standard reference which covers this topic: "Compilers:
> Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (Aho, Ullman, and others). You can
> ignore the code-generation and optimization sections, but the parsing
> portions of the task are essentially the same, and the typechecking
> chapter may be relevant if you want to implement validation.

Thanks for your answer and reference!. I'm not trying to reinvent the
wheel, I'm trying to write a very simple and reliable parser for a
commercial software. The ones out there are very complex, big and
license violation needs to be taken under consideration. If you know
about a very simple one written in C please let me know.

I have indeed a real interest in learning how parsers function, that's
because I asked for a book reference. As for now the new state machine
has 5 states and more or less I can handle some simple XLM tags.

Regards