Re: parsing to XML
- From: anno4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Anno Siegel)
- Date: 6 Oct 2005 10:20:15 GMT
<steeve_dun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a document that includes definitions.
> What I want is parsing the document and saving these definitions in a
> xml document.
> Is there a simple way to do so?
> Thank you!
>
> Example:
> #### beginning of ducument ####
> \glossary{HTML} {HyperText Markup Language} is the lingua franca for
> publishing hypertext on the \glossary {WWW}{World Wide Web}
> #### end of ducument ####
Your example doesn't show the variability of the data. Examples never
do, they only ever give a lower bound. There can always be a variant
that doesn't happen to appear in the example.
Can a "definition" span lines? Assuming that it can, you can't process
the text line-wise without major trickery. You'll need all of it in
memory . Here is a method that extracts the definitions from the text
and puts them in a hash:
my $text = <<'END_TEXT';
\\glossary{HTML} {HyperText Markup Language} is the lingua franca for
publishing hypertext on the \\glossary {WWW}{World Wide Web}
END_TEXT
my %definition_for = $text =~ /\\glossary\s*{([^}]*)}\s*{([^}]*)}/g;
Generating XML from the hash is probably a job for one of the XML modules.
Anno
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