Re: [xml] libxml-1.8.5 is released

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 03:58:27 EST


On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:59:34AM +1100, he@physics.usyd.edu.au wrote:
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> hi, Daniel,
>
> I quite admire that you have written the whole parser by hand. Is there
> any reason not to use flex and yacc?

  A lot of reason indeed. Main ones were:
    - lack of flexibility (I18N, various inputs, etc ...)
    - problem linking apps when 2 different modules are based
      on lex/yacc, trying to lower dependancies to bare minimum
    - I prefered having one parser function per production
      rule in the C code rather tahn having the loging in the
      .y and just helping functions in an associated module.

  Daniel

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