aw crap, I didn't know about the shuttle accident when I wrote this...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Longman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 9:56 AM Subject: Error Parsing solved > I have come up with a scheme that will give Spindle all the information it > needs to show lots of errors without > changing the SpecParser, or AbstractDocumentParser! > > I have a built a custom Xerces parser that attaches the location information > to the DOM nodes via setUserObject(). > Each element and attribute will be able to report: > > begin line, begin column, end line, end column. As well if an element is > thus: > > <foo> > ..... > </foo> > > the node for foo will contain the boundary info for both the start and the > end tag. > > As well, I'm adding a document handler to the parser pipeline that will do > the checks done by the SpecificationParser > (the perl expression stuff). Heck, down the road I may add another handler > to the pipeline that further validates the content, i.e.. > checks to see if component X really exists. Something along the lines of > Mindbridge's validator. (Hopefully my stuff can compliment MB's). > > It may get to the point where Spindle only needs to use the SpecParser to > create Tapestry objects, everything will be prevalidated. > hmm maybe there should be a switch in the parser that turns off the internal > checking, might add up to a speed improvement - might not though. > > And the really cool thing for Tapestry 2.4 support is that the same kind of > validation will be possible in the templates. I have found a parser built on > Xerces that parses HTML and synthesizes missing HTML tags to make the > document well formed. > > I'm happy, the sun is shining, 2.4 support in Spindle is coming! > > Geoff > > Geoffrey Longman > Intelligent Works Inc. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
