Re: Encaspulation: What to export

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote in message
> news:ovhst9$1a43$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> ...
>> I parse not a string but an RDF tree. It is similar to convert AST
>> (abstract
>> syntax tree) to another format. RDF is similar to an AST but more
>> abstract.
>>
>> So it is NOT a deserialization operation in Ada sense.
> 
> Calling the operation of creating an RDF (or XML or HTML or SGML ...) tree
> from "parsing" is a gross distortion from what really is going on. As

No. I "parse" RDF (not a text file) and create data in other format.

> Dmitry says, it is much more a deserialization operation, since you don't
> need any sort of traditional parser to implement it. You just need text

I write an "untraditional" parser which extracts data from RDF.

> operations (lexical analysis) and a stack of pending tree nodes (both of
> which are needed even if you had used a traditional parser anyway). In
> general, any "language" where the node types are immediately determined
> (as in all of the above, the prefix determines the type of node) does not
> need parsing, because there are never any situations where the choice of
> what to do has to be deferred.
> 
>                                                    Randy.
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