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TorgoX (1933)

TorgoX
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Sunday December 23, 2001
09:06 AM

Pod parser progress

[ #1776 ]
Sometime this summer while I was poking at perlpodspec, I wrote all the hard parts of a from-scratch Pod parser, to make sure it actually was implementable. But I tossed out my code out, since I assumed that I wouldn't actually need it -- since once perlpodspec was out, all the Pod::* authors would instantly leap up and make their modules compliant, right? Ahem.
Well, I probably didn't actually toss out the code, but I failed to name the files anything particularly meaningful or put it anywhere where I'd find it again, so I can't now find it on my vast hard drive.

Anyhow, I rewrote it from scratch, and doing that is never as tedious as I think. Indeed, as many people will tell you, tossing out your first try at something and rewriting, is usually a pretty good idea.

So now I have the hardest parts done of the new Pod parser module. It's downhill from here, just a bunch of busywork. The one remaining notable hurdle that I see, is the processing of L<...> codes. That's a mess and then some.


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  • Sean, please tell me that this parser generates events (in the order they occur). We talked about this at the last TPC, actually. I'd kill for a simple event-generating POD parser. None of this "Hey, we have some text. Oh, and in that text there was a C section, which was surrounded by an L tag!" AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I hate that.

    Anyway, a nice event firing parser (ooh, SAX2!) would be super-sweet.

    -dave
    • Yes, very much event-based, and with events getting fired in a sane order. (Because this is going to be a real parser, not a tokenizer [develooper.com].) It'll be either natively SAX, or natively something that's clearly a notational variant of SAX and for which I'd probably provide a simple SAX wrapper.

      Incidentally: originally I was going to make this be one black box where you pour Pod in one end and get XML out the other. (That's as opposed to a model where there's a whole Habitrail set [geocities.com] of modules, each handling on

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