Yuval Kogman wrote:
By the way, a nice use case for using the rules engine could be "parsing" a stream of SAX events into a structure... XML::Simple in perl6 could be really as simple as it sounds =) Can anyone see this being retrofitted on top of current rules semantics? How does PGE relate to this?
Yes, in fact SGML DTDs, once reduced to compact forms such as in; http://search.cpan.org/src/SAMV/Perldoc-0.13/t/09-scottish.t End up looking surprisingly similar to rules. Sam.