Category Archives: XPath

Embedding semantic actions into syntax rules

Posted on October 31, 2004 by James McParlane

I’m hunting for terms to use in my own algorithm for a combined lexer and parsing engine. Got my algorithm documented now in my handy dandy notebook that I have scribbling in for the last week on the train and … Continue reading →

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Grammar Visualiser

Posted on October 18, 2004 by James McParlane

Mastered dot and the fine art of creating pretty digraphs. Developed example script which produces a nice image that will aid in the visualisations of grammar tables. Now just need to make it build the dot script for a given grammar.

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Cough Cough…

Posted on July 28, 2004 by James McParlane

I soldier on. Favorite new word. ‘syntagma‘. Designing a new nifty data structure to enable efficient & fast construction of optimal combined lexical and LALR syntax parse tables from a context free grammar. Fun thinking time ahead. I’m going to sit down with … Continue reading →

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