Post #236,651
11/30/05 4:38:29 PM
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Anybody ever parsed a DTD?
Because I'm convinced now that the W3C has some of the most reality altering narcotics around in a big old candy dish in the front lobby.
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Post #236,654
11/30/05 4:48:47 PM
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Not in polite company.
Peter
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Post #236,706
12/1/05 12:14:48 AM
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ICLRPD: Not in polite company. (new thread)
Created as new thread #236705 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=236705|ICLRPD: Not in polite company.]
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Post #236,655
11/30/05 5:02:43 PM
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I've parsed RTF
But that was just banging a head against a wall. That's when I first started hating Microsoft.
Matthew Greet
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Post #236,656
11/30/05 5:05:19 PM
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ya gotta start somewhere :-)
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Post #236,704
12/1/05 12:13:01 AM
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I'm sorry!
I've had to deal with that, too.
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Post #236,658
11/30/05 5:13:10 PM
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Yup
More fun is trying to validate that a given XML doc conforms to the DTD, given that the DTD can have same-named nodes at different levels of different nodes. Converting this to an unambiguous data structure that can still be comprehended by a normal human is tricky.
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Post #236,671
11/30/05 5:45:03 PM
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XML murders relational normalization thinking
The Buchanian navigationalists are trying to ressurrect themselves using XML and OOP to pull their rotting corpses from the cold, damp 1960's ground.
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Post #236,690
11/30/05 9:13:51 PM
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Web pages aren't meant to be relational
I'm building a program to check the general level of "wrongness" of the html in a web page. The formal definition of this is a DTD from the W3C. I've got a nifty parser built that seems to successfully build a DOM out of even the most hideous html and diagnoses things like unclosed tags and such as it goes. This gets me the general structural-ness stuff.
But for things like "you can't follow a table tag with a form tag" I'll have to go to the DTD. Turning a DTD into a useful data structure in memory has proven to be bloody challenging (although I think I just cracked it a couple minutes ago).
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #236,959
12/3/05 8:12:02 PM
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and it shows
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Post #236,697
11/30/05 11:12:19 PM
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DTD is an old muddled standard
W3C never went back to try and fix it, settling instead on some other xml extensions to do the trickier bits. Of course, that's always been the rub against DTD => its got its own format that has no relation whatsoever with xml, being more an ancient tongue. Anyhow, it's not too terribly involved, as there's only a finite number of variations of things that can be accomplished.
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Post #236,761
12/1/05 1:56:46 PM
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And to make it extra fun
The html 4.01 transitional dtd at w3c - the one at the official url and all - has a syntax error, failed to terminate the first element and open a new comment brace.
How sucky is that?
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #236,765
12/1/05 2:39:55 PM
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Well, they did label it as Transitional...
...meaning Transitional from Bad to Worse. :-)
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