Re: Parser Problems

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Thomson wrote:
>   Any help would be appreciated.

It could be that the web service is producing defective XML

I can say from experience that writing your own parser is *not* that 
difficult, even if you're having to parse notoriously difficult to parse 
data streams like XML. Assuming you are expecting a specific XML data 
stream, and you *don't* have to parse generalized XML, it's *not* as 
difficult as some would have you think, to write a parser that will 
understand the data stream, and tolerate malformed XML (in fact, for a 
"single data stream parser," it can actually be easier to tolerate 
malformed XML than to recognize it as being malformed!).

I can also say, from direct experience, that ILE RPG is a sufficiently 
sophisticated language that you can write a recursive-descent parser 
(IMHO, the easiest kind of parser to hand-code) in it; I've done at 
least two such, and one of them *is* for a specialized XML stream. And 
I've never heard of a data stream that couldn't be parsed by recursive 
descent.

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JHHL
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