"Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson@cpsgroup.com> writes:
> I need to parse this format:
> <Database ftpdatabase [hostname[:port]]>
> [<DatabaseID somebody>]
> [<DatabasePWD mypwd>]
> [<Table ftp_users>
> [<Uname uname>]
> [<CryptedPwd cryptedpwd>]
> [<FtpPath ftppath>]
> </Table>]
> </Database>
That looks suspiciously like an SGML DTD to me...
Rather than doing the whole lex/yacc bit, I'd suggest finding some
ready-made SGML-parsing tools. For instance, if you are handy with
Perl I think there are some SGML modules in CPAN ... certainly there
are HTML parsers, which'd probably be easy to adapt to the purpose.
regards, tom lane
