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On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 11:30:14 UTC+11, mascip wrote: > > My partner just said: > > "so, you get to choose for what kind of roots the sap (information) goes > up?" > Yes, so we can get information with minimal effort. > > "And if you're looking for nitrogen contained in water, can you choose to > only let this kind of food go up the roots?" > Exactly :) > > The roots are the DOM, and Marpa makes the sap go up, so we don't have to > go digging for it. > The roots are part of the DOM. The DOM also contains intermediary nodes, and the relationships between nodes. > In fact there's a flaw in this story: the place where the information is > (the area and specific root where it's contained) is itself an information. > I might only want to find links which are in the menu, for instance. > English is very tricky. So it's not "is itself an information. We have to say "is itself information". But your basic idea is correct. Finding the context of links could, I assume, be done with Marpa::R2::HTML, but I suspect using another module would be more straight-forward. > To use one more picture ( one too many?), each area of the soil had > different flavors/colours/properties. And that's also important in the > research. > > Now, I wonder if this huge metaphor will enable me to write code and > comments that tell a clear (simple, maintainable) story of how I choose to > makes the information come up. > Oh. I just re-read your Gist and it does tell a good story. > > I feel like I will definitely need to visualise scraping differently. And > use tricks that are different too; so it's a big learning experiment. > The nice thing is: if I can imagine the dwarf's mine, then I know where > the information must pass, so I can also imagine how the roots should > direct the sap. > This is good because we all need to visualise for our own satisfaction what's going on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to marpa-parser+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
