Sounds good to me. -Jim
On Aug 4, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Jeff Rogers wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm implementing a minor enhancement to the adp parser to make null end tags > (aka empty elements or minimized tags) work. Or more simply, if you have a > registered adp tag where the end tag matches the opening tag, then rather than > <mytag name="value"></mytag> > you can simply write > <mytag name="value" /> > to create the tag with empty contents. > > What my code does is to check that the element ends with a '/', the endtag > begins with a '/', and the endtag matches the beginning tag, and if all that > holds, then parse it as a complete tag pair with blank contents. > > Two minor caveats: there must be something in between the tag and the closing > />, i.e., "<mytag/>" will not work. And to keep the attributes clean, a > trailing '/' in *any* attribute string (including those without an endstring) > will be dropped. (So the attribute set will no longer contain /="/") > > This does not make it into an xml parser, but merely allows a common xml-ish > construct to work. > > Two questions: > 1. Is the a good idea / does anyone object? > 2. Have I forgotten anything? > > Cheers, > -J > > PS: in case you doubted that macros in C suck, remember that > #define STREQ(a,b) (((*a) == (*b)) && (strcmp((a),(b)) == 0)) > is NOT the same as > #define STREQ(a,b) ((*(a) == *(b)) && (strcmp((a),(b)) == 0)) > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the > body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: > field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
