Thanks, Gunther. I know Michael Blakeley was trying to say the same thing with the test case he sent a while ago. But I do think you've said it in a way that might actually sink in with folks a bit more.
Given that we do have some entries, I feel quite obliged to stick with the current deadline. That said, I do expect to announce some additional bounties next month. And, it certainly seems plausible that I could open up a bounty for significant improvements over any good, but not great, implementations we get for the current challenge that ends today, September 30th. Before deciding on that, of course, we'll first review the existing entries. Assuming you can't make the current deadline, I'd recommend you watch here and/or http://developer.marklogic.com/blog for the results of the current contest(s). Best, Eric Bloch [email protected] On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Gunther Rademacher wrote: > Hi all, > > what a pity - I only noticed this challenge recently, way too short > before the close of this month. > > Now I hope that the acceptance tests are hard enough to get the > competition prolonged. > > A problem that definitely should be solved is the proper distinction > of keywords and identifiers, in the absence of reserved words. Sorry > to say, and I may be missing something, but I have not seen a solution > here addressing this satisfactorily. > > Is it necessary to point out that the distinction highly depends on > a token's context? Repetitive application of regular expressions, > without proper context detection, will not be sufficient, and > enumerating some special cases does not provide a complete solution > either. In fact I believe that the best way to tokenize XQuery is > feeding back information from a full-fledged parser into the lexer. > > Of course the environment must provide appropriate interfaces for > integrating that. From a quick check it seems to me that CodeMirror > would be my first choice to go for. > > So if there is any chance to extend the timeframe of this challenge, > I would gladly attempt a CodeMirror approach. > > Best regards > Gunther > -- > Gunther Rademacher > mailto:[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
