----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Complex Series Parsing (Part 2)
> This is on the right track. But more complexity would arise... here is an
> advanced XML structure...
>
> y: [<tag0></tag0> <text> this and that <tag1>those </tag1>and
> these</text><tag2></tag2><text>There and then</text>]
> output would be...
> out: [
> <tag0>
> </tag0>
> <text> this and that
> <tag1>
> <text> those
> </tag1>
> <text> and these
> </text>
> <tag2>
> </tag2>
> <text> There and then
> </text>
> ]
I am sorry but I can't understand the reason you want the input in above
state. It's imo buggy. So you manually insert <text> tag in fron of each
text, while real <text> tag exists too? Just look at your output - you have
3 <text> tags while you have only one closing </text> tag. Is that correct?
-pekr-
>
>
> There is method to the madness, I've got the "madness" part down pat, now
if
> I could only come up with "the method".
>
> Thanks
> Terry Brownell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:17 PM
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Complex Series Parsing (Part 2)
>
>
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what you are really trying to do. Usually
> > with parse, once you describe the format of what you want to parse and
> > the output wou desire, the parse rules just fall out onto the screen.
> > Correct me if I'm wrong:
> >
> > Input is a block with the following format:
> > A <text> tag followed by a series of words with any number of non
> > <text> or </text> tags interspersed and ends with a </text> tag.
> >
> > The desired output is the same block except that every place there is
> > a non <text> tag in the block a <text> tag should be placed after it
> > and before the next series of words. The ending </text> tag should be
> > removed.
> >
> > For this you don't need parse at all. Just march through the block
> > and insert the new <text> tag as needed:
> > y: [
> > <text> This is some text <tag> with a tag added </tag> and then some
text
> </text>
> > ]
> >
> > forall y [
> > all [tag? y/1 y/1 <> <text> y/1 <> </text> insert next y <text>]
> > all [y/1 = </text> remove y y: back y]
> > ]
> >
> > probe y: head y
> >
> > Perhaps your rules are a bit more complicated in which caase you need
> > to define them and then see what's the best way to do it. Parse may
> > be necessary but this simple case can be done quickly another way.
> >
> > Sterling
> >
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > > How do you parse this...
> > > y: [
> > > <text> This is some text <tag> with a tag added </tag> and then some
> text </text>
> > > ]
> > >
> > >
> > > So that you get this
> > >
> > > n: [
> > > <text> This is some text
> > > <tag>
> > > <text> with a tag added
> > > </tag>
> > > <text> and then some text
> > > ]
> > >
> > > I tried this...
> > >
> > > n: []
> > > z: parse y none
> > >
> > > foreach val z [
> > > either find val "<" [append n val] [append n rejoin [{<text> } val]]
> > > ]
> > >
> > > But then I get
> > >
> > > n: [
> > > <text>
> > > <text> This
> > > <text> is
> > > <text> some
> > > <text> text
> > > <tag>
> > > <text> with
> > > <text> a
> > > <text> tag
> > > <text> added
> > > </tag>
> > > <text> and
> > > <text> then
> > > <text> some
> > > <text> text
> > > </text>
> > > ]
> > >
> > > So how do I "collect" all the text until the next "tag"?
> > >
> > > Terry Brownell
> > >
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