[REBOL] Parsing examples? Re:(2)

[bemerson]

You guys are awesome!

>Hi Brad,
>you wrote:
>[snip]
> >I want to write an XML'ish parser.  Which is to say that I need to match
> >beginning and ends of tags, but I don't know the tag names.  i.e.
> >bookXML in a nutshell  The tags are made up for a
> >specific data set, but i don't know what they are in advance.  I know they
> >begin like this,  and end like this 
>
>Check out
> >> source xml-language
>
>You may find it helpful, especially the function xml-language/parse-xml,
>which is used by the global word parse-xml.
>
> >> source parse-xml
>
>
>;- Elan >> [: - )]

[REBOL] Parsing examples? Re:(2)

[bemerson]

>'thru' and 'to' are part of the parse sub-language, not of the REBOL
>language. That is why they are not in the REBOL dictionary.

I see.  I would argue that a dictionary that uses words in a definition 
that are not in the dictionary is wrong in doing so.

Brad



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>
>It seems that the 'parse' function in Rebol is quite advance, the
>documentation--at least in the dictionary, suggests great things.  This
>example they give is awesome--also pretty much unexplained:
>
>;page: read http://www.rebol.com
>;parse page [thru  copy title to ]
>;print title
>
>I searched for 'thru' and 'to' which are not in the dictionary.  The
>documentation is the biggest handicap to this language's success.  The
>funny thing is that title is actually a variable after running this.
>
>I want to write an XML'ish parser.  Which is to say that I need to match
>beginning and ends of tags, but I don't know the tag names.  i.e.
>bookXML in a nutshell  The tags are made up for a
>specific data set, but i don't know what they are in advance.  I know they
>begin like this,  and end like this 
>
>Thanks
>
>Brad