Learn petit parser way of doing things. It takes a while to grok. Well, at least, there is still a ton to learn AFAIAC
But it is very powerful. Phil 2013/3/11 Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni) <[email protected]>: > Hello again, > > > > Im building an HTML5 Parser in smalltalk. > Im building it according to the pseudo code provided by WHATWG mainly > these: > > Tokenization: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html > > Tree Construction: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tree-construction.html > > > > Im still in the Tokenization phase. > The spec defines a state machine. It describes what has to be done when we > reach a certain state. > > My approach to building the tokenizer is by representing each state as a > method. > > Each method does some operations ( calling other methods to represent > changing state or returning tokens etc..) > > > > I will be translating the pseudo code provided as is to Smalltalk. > > I am not sure if this is the best approach to do things especially that I am > still new to Smalltalk. > > > > I was told by Stephane Ducasse to use PetitParser. > > Doing a quick reading I noticed that it is used when grammars are available. > In my case I don’t have a grammar but pseudo-code of a parser. Can I know if > anyone has any suggestions for such a project or any comments on the > approach I am aiming to follow ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mohammad >
