Am 17.12.2013 18:00, schrieb Alexandre Patry:
> On 2013-12-17 11:56, Peter Klügl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> some of the rules behave as expected. It's maybe a bit counterintuitive,
>> but I do not see a way to improve it. I will fix the rest in the next
>> few days.
>>
>> An example:
>>
>> (SPECIAL ALL* SPECIAL) {-> MARK(TMP_GenericAllSTAR)};
>>
>> ALL is a parent type of SPECIAL and * is a greedy quantifier. Therefore
>> ALL matches on all annotations and also on the SPECIAL annotations until
>> the end of the document. Then, there is no SPECIAL annotation left to
>> match and the rule fails.
> Using a reluctant quantifier should work as expected for this specific
> case case:
>
> (SPECIAL ALL*? SPECIAL) {-> MARK(TMP_GenericAllSTAR)};
>
>
Just another comment that has nothing to do with the problem :-)
The rule is of course somewhat "slow".
I would rather rewrite it in:
(SPECIAL # SPECIAL) {-> MARK(TMP_GenericAllSTAR)};
Here, the wildcard searches for the next SPECIAL annotation in the index
and has not to match on each token until the next SPECIAL annotation.
Best,
Peter
> Hope this help,
>
> Alexandre
>
